At Home With Ivan Vladislavić

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393071511

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Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

“Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as “one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher Hope).

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810762

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The Distance by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks become the foundation for a memoir of his childhood. When he calls upon his brother, Branko, for help uncovering their shared past, meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671688

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The Exploded View by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavić, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist interested in genocide, and a contractor who puts up billboards on construction sites. Arcing across distance and time, Vladislavić deftly explodes our comfortable views and brings us behind the curtains of the city while subtly expanding our notions of what is possible in the novel form.

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415202524

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Flashback Hotel by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

Two sought-after collections of short stories by Ivan Vladislavić are brought together and made available again in this new volume. Vladislavić’s abilities as a master of understatement and brevity are brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), featuring the two stories that won him the Thomas Pringle Award.

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671374

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The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.

Author : Gerald Gaylard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000854091

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At Home with Ivan Vladislavić by Gerald Gaylard Pdf

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415202111

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Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

A senior photography introduces a young man to the intricacies of photography. ‘If,’ he says, ‘I try to imagine the lives going on in all these houses, the domestic dramas, the family sagas, it seems impossibly complicated. How could you ever do justice to something so rich in detail? You couldn’t do it in a novel, let alone a photograph.’ The novel follows the young man’s broken path, as he goes overseas, finds a career, and then comes back to a changed Johannesburg. In the process, the book develops an ever-widening perspective not only on change in the country, but also on questions to do with seeing and being seen. It brings into sharp focus South Africa’s recent history and the difficulty of depicting it. Double Negative was first published in November 2010 in TJ/Double Negative as the fictional companion to David Goldblatt’s book of Johannesburg photographs titled TJ

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Short stories, South African (English)
ISBN : 0864861389

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Missing Persons by Ivan Vladislavić Pdf

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781415206065

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101 Detectives by Ivan Vladislavic Pdf

A private-eye convention and a tussle over a Pierneef A young man's unsettling experience in the American South and a tragedy off the coast of Mauritius. A bizarre night of industrial theatre and a translator at a loss for words. These are but a few of the fictions in 101 Detectives, a new collection of short stories by Ivan Vladislavić, one of South Africa's most celebrated authors. A collection of short stories launched his career as a writer. Twenty-six years and a whole oeuvre later, 101 Detectives showcases Vladislavić's virtuosity as he bends and recasts this literary form in spectacular fashion.

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : And Other Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 1908276266

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Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavić Pdf

Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white.

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : Sylph Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Johannesburg (South Africa)
ISBN : 0956509282

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A Labour of Moles by Ivan Vladislavić Pdf

"Presents a postmodern fable by one of South Africa's most imaginative writers. In this playful riddle, the reader is taken down to the perspective of an unidentified word in a dictionary. It is accompanied by nineteen spectacular color illustrations, that takes the reader where few have trod - inside the building blocks of fiction itself." --Publisher.

Author : Tamar Garb,Okwui Enwezor,Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, South African
ISBN : 190562025X

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Home Lands by Tamar Garb,Okwui Enwezor,Ivan Vladislavić Pdf

Home Lands - Land Marks is an exhibition of new and recent work from seven leading South African artists at Haunch of Venison, London, and the first in London to focus on contemporary South African art since 1995. The publication focuses on images and invocations of landscape which explore contemporary South Africa. Differing from the usual approach to post-apartheid South Africa, the exhibition addresses the complexity of the South African landscape, reflecting upon notions of memory, place and identity, referring to the political context and historical background of South Africa only through the imprint and trace of human experience on the physical landscape. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Home Lands - Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South Africa at Haunch of Venison, London, May - July 2008.

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0857420127

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The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories by Ivan Vladislavić Pdf

Includes 12 collages by Sunandini Banerjee.

Author : Phaswane Mpe
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821443712

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Welcome to Our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe Pdf

Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbingride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow—microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African psyche. Everythingis there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people’s lives, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner-city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong, and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow—living with the same energy and intimate knowledge with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 0864863152

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Propaganda by Monuments & Other Stories by Ivan Vladislavić Pdf