The Writer & The Ghostwriter

The Writer: A Very Short Novel without Chapters about Writing and Darkness Where does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse or a unique gift granted by demonic forces to penetrate the darkness and see beyond it? Two fundamental principles of the most noble of all arts are in the permanent collision surrounded by the contagious environment of the authors vanity envy malice.The Ghostwriter A writer sits down to work but who can resist the addictive temptation of the email inbox? Each message alert brings a new question and a fresh challenge until a tangled web weaves its way around the hapless author. Yet all the while his cat Felix gets on with life regardless. Zoran Zivkovics hilarious new novella lays bare the oddities and absurdities of the writing life: the traps writers set for themselves and the snares readers lay for them. Here too are fascinating puzzles about the nature of authorship and the writers identity the relationship between the writer and their work and between the writer and the reader the reader and that which is read. Above all though it is a paean to the Cat to a relationship which in its simplicity and innocence its playfulness and affection makes nonsense of all these human perplexities.