The Executioner (Kisyov novel)

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The Executioner
The Executioner
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Author Stefan Kisyov
Language Bulgarian
GenreCrime
Publication place Bulgaria
Published in English
2003

The Executioner is a post modern novel by Bulgarian novelist Stefan Kisyov, about the killing of Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov. It was published in 2003 and is the winner of the Vick Foundation's "Best Novel of 2004". [1]

Contents

Style

The style of the book [2] is written part fictionally, part phantasmagorically and uses existing facts, regardless of whether they are political, public or artistic by nature. It relies on vivid details, good dialogue, and on the effect of expectations going wrong, with a mixture of rough naturalism and ironical and metaphysical generalizations. The novel is written in the form of a confession, the confession of an executioner turned into a victim, and a victim, turned into an executioner.

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References

  1. Vick Foundation [usurped]
  2. "Stefan Kisyov, Part of the novel "The Executioner"". www.litclub.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-23.
  3. Българска литература в превод на чешки (1990-2014), Рецепция на славянските литератури в България след 1989 г. и на българската литература в съответните страни.
  4. Българска литература в превод на сръбски през 2012 г..