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Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary, Scott Abbott, Zarko Radakovic
Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary, Scott Abbott, Zarko Radakovic
Scott Abbott
As a follow-up to their first collaboration Repetitions (published in Belgrade in 1994, and in English by punctum books in 2013), in 2008 the authors published, also in Belgrade, Vampiri & Razumni recnik, published now by punctum as Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary. Vampires is Radaković’s fictionalized account of a Serb living in Cologne, Germany while his former country disintegrates. He travels in the American West, ostensibly looking for the vampires causing chaos in his own country, and then returns to Europe, having found no vampires. It is a dark text, a story of destruction told in a narrative that …