{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-parkinsons-disease-9781628976328","title":"The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExploring sanity and insanity, truth and untruth, \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease\u003c\/em\u003e is Svetislav Basara's unblinking and unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold as an eclectic collection of appropriated testimonies, treatises, missives, and police files, The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease follows the progression of the contagion's patient zero, a Soviet citizen (sometimes) named Demyan Lavrentyevich Parkinson, as he ascends from hellish health to the sacred illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed as one of Serbia's most influential living writers, Svetislav Basara's scathing, irreverent critiques of authoritarianism have twice won him Serbia's prestigious NIN Award.\u003cem\u003e In The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease\u003c\/em\u003e, Basara lives up to this reputation with a book as formally ambitious as it is intellectually sophisticated. His blend of grotesque absurdism and wry humor evokes the paranoid, vexing worlds of Franz Kafka's novels and the meta-textual assemblages of Paul Auster. Told from a colorful range of perspectives, the novel is a multifaceted, crystalline account of truth, lies, and history, a sprawling case study of humans in an inhuman society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1953, \u003cstrong\u003eSvetislav Basara\u003c\/strong\u003e is a major figure in Serbian and Eastern European literature. The author of more than twenty novels, essay and short story collections, he is also the winner of numerous awards and honors, including the NIN Prize in 2008. Between 2001 and 2005 Basara served as Serbia and Montenegro's ambassador to Cyprus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRandall A. Major\u003c\/strong\u003e is a linguist and translator. He teaches in the English department at the University of Novi Sad, and is one of the editors and translators of the Serbian Prose in Translation series produced by Geopoetika Publishing in Belgrade. His translations of Basara's \u003cem\u003eIn Search of the Grail\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFata Morgana\u003c\/em\u003e are also available from Dalkey Archive Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52101651595538,"sku":"9781628976328","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_48fefdac-02cf-4173-a976-e580e3ef6055.jpg?v=1773135443","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-parkinsons-disease-9781628976328","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}