MICHAL AYVAZ
Czech Republic
Michal Ayvaz is a poet and prose writer whose works can be described as literary fantasies filled with symbolism. He published his first book at the age of 40, although he had been writing at various intervals since the age of fifteen. He was born in 1949 in Prague. He has published eight novels, as well as an essay on Jacques Derrida, a book on the philosophy of Edmond Hussrel, a book on Borges ("The Dreams of the Teachers, The Luster of Letters"), as well as a philosophical text: "The Meditation of Seeing".
Michal Ayvaz is a literary magician who creates worlds out of worlds, worlds out of words, worlds out of objects. Borges and Timothy Leary's Fantastic Baby. He is a mescaline cartographer. He is from the Czech Republic.
Empty Streets
Translation: Igor Stanojoski
While going for a short walk in order to cure his creative block, the narrator becomes entangled in a mysterious web by impaling his foot on a strange object he names a double devil's fork. The narrator keeps running into symbols of the same shape until he receives a phone call from a former literary critic whose daughter has been mysteriously missing for two years. It is in this book that it is stylistically recognized that Ayvaz had previously dealt with philosophy (especially the work on Borges). The text is detailed to a master level. Although an easy read, this novel is worth re-reading and researching countless times.
The Luxembourg Garden
Translation: Igor Stanojoski
Paul is a professor in a Parisian high school and is facing a period of his life in which his favorite field, philosophy, will merge in an incredible way with the world of science fiction!
At the beginning of the vacation, Paul will accidentally type a word on the keyboard, which will become the cause of all the monster twists during the summer. The misspelled word moves him through the internet's labyrinths. Love and jealousy, hatred and reconciliation, in a witty way he connects them with the role of technology and science in our lives.