February 2015 3

“Secret documents from the private life of the planets”
short stories
Skopje, Templum
173 p.
ilustr., 21 cm
ISBN 9789989189630

Books from the AstroGnome edition are not scientific documents, their idea is not to be exact, nor they contain physical formulas. Rather, the idea is to play between fact and fiction to create something that is called “faction” or, as the author prefers, educational prose.
The topic of the first three books is the macroworld and the astronomy, while the fourth book is dealing with the microworld.
The author semantizes and breaks all the meanings, all the phrases and all the elements of narration, then resemanticizes them. In that process, he constantly mixes disparate concepts. Mostly in the field of popular culture and modern communications, but in that playfulness, there are many intellectualisms, in his own way style.

Robert Alagjozovski

2011 Reprint
Short stories
Skopje, Goten
64 p.
Illustr., 17 cm
ISBN 9786084625100

If you say that his stories are postmodern or that they emerge from under the large coat of Danil Harms – you are right. If you declare minimalism, compactness, simplicity, fairy tale style and subtle humor as main points of his poetics – you will be also right.
But it is interesting that in Prlja’s literature – as in any other good literature – meanings are not exhausted just like that. As David Albahari said: “What the story knows, we will never find out.”

Nikola Gelevski