Boris Pintar, Family Parables
translated by Rawley Grau
ISBN: 978-1-58498-070-4, paper, $17.95
“Boris Pintar’s terrific new collection, Family Parables, executes a series of beautiful backflips on our notion of the tale. Here
we find, locked in fierce embrace, the marvelously delicate inflection of Robert Walser and the fearless, fullthrottle verve of Kathy Acker. Each story serves as a bracing introduction to an important new voice in international fiction.” --Laird Hunt
“[Pintar] explores the complexity of sexual identity . . . with the archness of the caricaturist and the composure of the essayist.”
--Niko Goršič
“Stealthy, willful, and coldly erotic, Boris Pintar’s Family Parables combine the ruthlessness of folktales, the warmth of clinical
reports, and the intricacies of postmodernism into something thrillingly perverse. I had wondered what would come out of the
disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, but I never imagined a voice so queer—Kafka, Paul Auster, and Dennis Cooper all in one. Pintar moves from the edge of Europe down through the heart of the family and out the aroused genitalia. Rawley Grau has rendered the Slovene into a language at once colloquial and removed, a voice heard as if off at a great distance and from the middle of the inner ear.” --David Bergman
ISBN: 978-1-58498-070-4, paper, $17.95
“Boris Pintar’s terrific new collection, Family Parables, executes a series of beautiful backflips on our notion of the tale. Here
we find, locked in fierce embrace, the marvelously delicate inflection of Robert Walser and the fearless, fullthrottle verve of Kathy Acker. Each story serves as a bracing introduction to an important new voice in international fiction.” --Laird Hunt
“[Pintar] explores the complexity of sexual identity . . . with the archness of the caricaturist and the composure of the essayist.”
--Niko Goršič
“Stealthy, willful, and coldly erotic, Boris Pintar’s Family Parables combine the ruthlessness of folktales, the warmth of clinical
reports, and the intricacies of postmodernism into something thrillingly perverse. I had wondered what would come out of the
disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, but I never imagined a voice so queer—Kafka, Paul Auster, and Dennis Cooper all in one. Pintar moves from the edge of Europe down through the heart of the family and out the aroused genitalia. Rawley Grau has rendered the Slovene into a language at once colloquial and removed, a voice heard as if off at a great distance and from the middle of the inner ear.” --David Bergman