Ljubko Deresch
Ljubko Deresch
Ljubko Deresch, born in 1984, studied Economics in Lviv. Ljubko Deresch is viewed as a foremost representative of post-Soviet Ukrainian literature alongside Yuri Andrukhovych and Serhiy Zhadan. In his novels he describes life in the fictive Carpathian town of Midni Buky with warring youth gangs, drug-taking excesses, and the gradual encroachment of Western pop culture. Many reviewers already see him as a literary heir to H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce or Edgar Allen Poe. The German translations of his novels Культ and Поклоніння ящірці. Як нищити ангелів were published in the edition suhrkamp series.
Ljubko Deresch, born in 1984, studied Economics in Lviv. Ljubko Deresch is viewed as a foremost representative of post-Soviet Ukrainian literature alongside Yuri Andrukhovych and Serhiy Zhadan. In his novels he describes life in the fictive Carpathian town of Midni Buky with warring youth gangs, drug-taking excesses, and the gradual encroachment of Western pop culture. Many reviewers already see him as a literary heir to H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce or Edgar Allen Poe. The German translations of his novels Культ and Поклоніння ящірці. Як нищити ангелів were published in the edition suhrkamp series.
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Year of Publication: 2006
Ljubko DereschYear of Publication: 2006
Intent! Or the Mirror of Death
Petro Piatochkin discovers his phenomenal memory when still a schoolboy. One glance at a book suffices to memorize the subject-matter. His bizarre talent makes him an outsider, an oddball who immerses himself in academic tomes about time and consciousness. After conducting experiments on himself, he realizes he is able to recall events he cannot possibly have experienced. During a visit to »Café...