Artforum, December 1st, 2004
ON THE FRITZ CHINESE LETTER BY SVETISLAV BASARA, TRANSLATED BY ANA LUCIC NORMAL, IL: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS. 180 PAGES. $13.
You wake up one morning: You don't know your name, where you live, or whether you're alive or dead. All things considered, this should be viewed as a sign of psychic distress. If you're the protagonist of a certain kind of novel, however, you might recognize this as the embarkation point for a postmodern quest narrative. In the opening lines of the Serbian writer Svetislav Basara's debut novel, Chinese Letter, originally published in the former Yugoslavia in 1984, the nar...
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