Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

Houses

Borislav Pekić
4.05/5 (106 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it fascism or communism or capitalism, is always busy building anew, and Houses is a book about a man, Arseniev Negoyan, who has devoted his life and his dreams to building.

Bon vivant, Francophile, visionary, Negoyan spent the first half of his life building houses he loved and even gave names to—Juliana, Christina, Agatha—making his hometown of Belgrade into a modern city to be proud of. The second half of his life, after World War II and the Nazi occupation, he has spent in one of those houses, being looked after by his wife and a nurse, in hiding. Now, on the last day of his life, Negoyan has decided to go out at last to see what he has wrought.

Negoyan is one of the great characters in modern fiction, a charming monster of selfishness and self-delusion. And for all his failings, his life poses a question for the rest of us: Where in the modern world is there a home except in illusion?
Format:
Pages:
224 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Edition:
Main
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1590179471
ISBN13:
9781590179475
kindle Asin:
B00XGAWYCS

Houses

Borislav Pekić
4.05/5 (106 ratings)
Read Download
Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it fascism or communism or capitalism, is always busy building anew, and Houses is a book about a man, Arseniev Negoyan, who has devoted his life and his dreams to building.

Bon vivant, Francophile, visionary, Negoyan spent the first half of his life building houses he loved and even gave names to—Juliana, Christina, Agatha—making his hometown of Belgrade into a modern city to be proud of. The second half of his life, after World War II and the Nazi occupation, he has spent in one of those houses, being looked after by his wife and a nurse, in hiding. Now, on the last day of his life, Negoyan has decided to go out at last to see what he has wrought.

Negoyan is one of the great characters in modern fiction, a charming monster of selfishness and self-delusion. And for all his failings, his life poses a question for the rest of us: Where in the modern world is there a home except in illusion?
Format:
Pages:
224 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Edition:
Main
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1590179471
ISBN13:
9781590179475
kindle Asin:
B00XGAWYCS

More Books

The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1)

Ivo Andrić

Dictionary of the Khazars

Milorad Pavić

Semper Idem

Đorđe Lebović

Estoril

Dejan Tiago-Stanković

Ostrvo

Meša Selimović

Seobe

Miloš Crnjanski

Melancholy

Jon Fosse

The Fortress

Meša Selimović

Za crnom devojkom

Aleksandar Tišma

Prokleta avlija

Ivo Andrić

I onda opet, iz početka

Filip Grujić

Sitničarnica "Kod srećne ruke"

Goran Petrović