{"product_id":"the-loss-library-and-other-unfiinished-stories","title":"The Loss Library and Other Unfiinished Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher's text:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this unusual text, a blend of essay, fiction and literary genealogy, Vladislavić explores the problems and potentials of the fictions he could not bring himself to write. Drawing from his notebooks of the past twenty years, he records a range of ideas for stories – unsettled accounts, he calls them, or case studies of failure – and examines where they came from and why they eluded him. In the process, he reveals some of the principles that matter to him as a writer, and pays tribute to some of the writers – Walser, Perec, Sterne, DeLillo – who have been important to him as a reader.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the heart of the text, like a brightly lit room in a field of debris, stands the Loss Library itself, the shelves laden with books that have never been written. On the page, the books tell us, every loss may yet be recovered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivan Vladislavic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48179230539930,"sku":"13207","price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0350\/5704\/1545\/files\/SKM_C55826051916040.jpg?v=1780404445","url":"https:\/\/store.a4arts.org\/products\/the-loss-library-and-other-unfiinished-stories","provider":"A4 Arts Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}