“The italics and discursive play, the alternating realities and narrative voices, the confluence of banal and metaphysical, the self-referentiality of the text, and the cross-genre (as Ema puts it in relation to her dreams) nature of the novel, all signal that Fragile Travelers is a postmodern text. And yet, this slim volume does not claim for itself any of the literary gravitas or narrative tour de force that Pavić’s or Kiš’s postmodern novels have been accorded. Although fully deserving of such accolades, its accomplishments also lie elsewhere: it is a subtle, intimate, lyrical, even hopeful and humorous meditation on the human desire for happiness, in one world or another.”
Read the rest of Stiliana Milkova’s review at Asymptote.
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