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Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393071510
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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).

The Distance

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 1939810760
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Distance written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić

Author : Gerald Gaylard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000854094
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book At Home with Ivan Vladislavić written by Gerald Gaylard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Exploded View

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0914671685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Exploded View written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Flashback Hotel

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415202524
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Flashback Hotel written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Folly

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0914671375
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Folly written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Double Negative

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415202117
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Double Negative written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Double Negative

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : And Other Stories
ISBN 13 : 9781908276261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book Double Negative written by Ivan Vladislavić and published by And Other Stories. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, politics, identity, photography: South African writer Ivan Vladislavic reminds us nothing is black and white.

Missing Persons

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864861382
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Missing Persons written by Ivan Vladislavić and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

101 Detectives

Author : Ivan Vladislavic
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415206066
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book 101 Detectives written by Ivan Vladislavic and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Labour of Moles

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher : Sylph Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780956509284
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Labour of Moles written by Ivan Vladislavić and published by Sylph Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories

Author : Ivan Vladislavić
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857420121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories written by Ivan Vladislavić and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 12 collages by Sunandini Banerjee.

Home Lands

Author : Tamar Garb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905620258
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Home Lands written by Tamar Garb and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Combined and Uneven Development

Author : Warwick Research Collective
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381895
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Combined and Uneven Development written by Warwick Research Collective and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambition of this book is to resituate the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in the social sciences, where it continues to stimulate debate. But its implications for cultural analysis have received less attention, even though the theory might be said to draw attention to a central -perhaps the central - arc or trajectory of modern(ist) production in literature and the other arts worldwide. It is in the conjuncture of combined and uneven development, on the one hand, and the recently interrogated and expanded categories of 'world literature' and 'modernism', on the other, that this book looks for its specific contours. In the two theoretical chapters that frame the book, the authors argue for a single, but radically uneven world-system; a singular modernity, combined and uneven; and a literature that variously registers this combined unevenness in both its form and content to reveal itself as, properly speaking, world-literature. In the four substantive chapters that then follow, the authors explore a selection of modern-era fictions in which the potential of their method of comparativism seems to be most dramatically highlighted. They treat the novel paradigmatically, not exemplarily, as a literary form in which combined and uneven development is manifested with particular salience, due in no small part to its fundamental association with the rise of capitalism and its status in peripheral and semi-peripheral societies as a 'modernising' import. The peculiar plasticity and hybridity of the novel form enables it to incorporate not only multiple literary levels, genres and modes, but also other non-literary and archaic cultural forms - so that, for example, realist elements might be mixed with more experimental modes of narration, or older literary devices might be reactivated in juxtaposition with more contemporary frames.

A Void

Author : Georges Perec
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922967
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book A Void written by Georges Perec and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana of humor, pathos, and loss."--Time magazine A Void is a metaphysical whodunit, a story chock-full of plots and subplots, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which afford Perec occasion to display his virtuosity as a verbal magician. It is also an outrageous verbal stunt: a 300-page novel that never once employs the letter E. The year is 1968, and as France is torn apart by social and political anarchy, the noted eccentric and insomniac Anton Vowl goes missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, his best friends scour his diary for clues to his whereabouts. At first glance these pages reveal nothing but Vowl's penchant for word games, especially for "lipograms," compositions in which the use of a particular letter is suppressed. But as the friends work out Vowl's verbal puzzles, and as they investigate various leads discovered among the entries, they too disappear, one by one by one, and under the most mysterious circumstances . . .

Gods and Soldiers

Author : Rob Spillman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110105042X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Gods and Soldiers written by Rob Spillman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal landscapes born out of the oral storytelling tradition, these stories represent a striking cross section of extraordinary writing. Including works by J. M. Coetzee, Chimamanda Adichie, Nuruddin Farah, Binyavanga Wainaina, and Chinua Achebe, and edited by Rob Spillman of Tin House magazine, Gods and Soldiers features many pieces never before published, making it a vibrant and essential glimpse of Africa as it enters the twenty-first century.

After the Party

Author : Andrew Feinstein
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844676277
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book After the Party written by Andrew Feinstein and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Party is the explosive story of the power struggles dominating South African politics and a crucial analysis of the ANC’s record in power. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC member of parliament, uncovers a web of corruption to rival Watergate, revealing a web of concealment and corruption involving senior politicians, officials and figures at the very highest level of South African politics. With an insider’s account of the events surrounding the contentious trial of South Africa’s colourful President, Jacob Zuma, and the ongoing tragedy in Zimbabwe, After the Party has been acclaimed as the most important book on South Africa since the end of apartheid.