Love Amateurs

by Aleksandar Prokopiev

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Anti-hero, and a would-be lover whose longing turns him into a buffoon: Prokopiev’s book is, surprisingly, a very English type.  Heir to Shakespeare’s Bottom, Henry Fielding’s trickster Tom Jones, and even Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, he could also share a pint or two with the deprecating genii loci of today’s British poetry: Alan Brownjohn’s Ludbrooke, Christopher Reid’s Mr Mouth or one of Hugo Williams’s frank self-portraits. But Peeper also belongs to the wider family of “the little man”, struggling under a weight of circumstance he has no notion how to negotiate. Living among, without managing to live by, conventions, the Peeper is a descendent of that wry Everyman who has suffered and been compromised since mediaeval times. He is a Good Soldier Svejk, a Charlie Chaplin, more than he is a Humbert Humbert or an Alexander Portnoy.  

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Author Biography

PhD Aleksandar Prokopiev. (Skopje, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, 1953). Prosaist and essay writer. He holds a M.A. Degree from the Faculty of Philoliogy in Belgrade, Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, as well as from Sorbone, France. Works at the Institute of Macedonian Literature at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. Prokopiev’s works have been translated into English, Japanese, French, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian and other languages. He received multiple awards at home and abroad. Winner of the International Balkanika award 2012.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Prozart media
  • Orginal LanguageMacedonian
  • ISBN/Identifier 9786082560977
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 4 EUR
  • Pages193
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language AuthorsMacedonian
  • EditionFirst Edition
  • Copyright Year2020

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