Something for Everyone, Nothing for Someone by Branko Prlja

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