The latest addition to the website is my review of Slovenian author Andrej Blatnik's short story, Too Close Together.
Too Close Together will be familiar to readers of Blatnik: nameless characters, their relationship as the focal point, the acceptance that interaction is a process of getting things wrong while trying to get them right - both your own feeling and theirs. What's new is the thematic backdrop of war, which allows Blatnik to intensify the already deeply felt emotions of his characters.
You can read the review here.
Too Close Together by Andrej Blatnik is a short story from Absinthe: New European Writing - Issue 1.
Other titles by Andrej Blatnik under review include:
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