On November 17th, Slovenian celebrities Luka Novak and Vlado Kreslin will be celebrating the launch of their newest works in Montreal!
Luka Novak is a Slovenian author, publisher, politician and TV personality. His first novel, The Golden Shower: Or, What Men Want is an intellectual farce, a surrealistic gallop through philosophy and art. With echoes of Thomas Pynchon and Woody Allen (with Hegel chanting in the background), we follow the ethical, erotic, and culinary adventures of a neurotic Slovene psychiatrist, a sassy Bosnian masseuse, a German mythology professor, and a politically-influential building contractor, involved in religious iconographic propaganda that incites a revolution in Venezuela.
Vlado Kreslin is a Slovenian musician, with a style that combines folk, rock and pop music; he is also a noted poet and actor. Instead of Whom Does The Flower Bloom is a poetry collection that evokes the lost world of a resilient people in a language that resonates in its plain-spokenness with the losses that all thoughtful people in a globalized economy confront. Don’t let the ostensibly un-ironic, even folksy language fool you–his poems slyly combine simplicity of means with complexity of effect, a combination only an artist of great sophistication can pull off.
This distinctive event will be sure to be a night to remember! Join on us November 17th (19h), at Mission Slovene 3470 Boul St. Joseph E, Montreal.
