Love Stories from the Babylonian Library

Translation by Angela Rodel. The world is a book, which someone is constantly recopying and rewriting. The world is a mirror, out of which peer ancient images.
There are exercises in style. There are also exercises in meaning. "Love Stories from the Babylonian Library" is an exercise in both.
In this book, the biblical tale of Bathsheba and David is retold through the idiom and worldview of six of the 20^th century's great writers - Jaroslav Hasek, Franz Kafka, Andrey Platonov, Jorge Luis Borges, J. D. Salinger и Robert M. Pirsing.

Valery Stefanov is a professor of literary history at Sofia University - "St. Kliment Ohridski". He is the author of five novels and many academic works in the sphere of the humanities, including literary history, anthropology...

"The Razvitie Corporation" is supporting this publication as part of the events marking its 25^th anniversary.

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