Postcards from the Past
Chris Power: Georgi Gospodinov’s Impossible Books, 5 June 2025
The Physics of Sorrow
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel.
Weidenfeld, 277 pp., £9.99, February 2024,978 1 3996 2313 1 Show More
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel.
Weidenfeld, 277 pp., £9.99, February 2024,
The Story Smuggler: A Very Brief Memoir
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Kristina Kovacheva and Dan Gunn.
Weidenfeld, 70 pp., £14.99, February 2024,978 1 3996 2311 7 Show More
by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Kristina Kovacheva and Dan Gunn.
Weidenfeld, 70 pp., £14.99, February 2024,
“... Georgi Gospodinov was 22 when Bulgarian communism collapsed in early 1990. ‘The end of our training,’ he has written, ‘coincided with the end of that for which we had been trained.’ In his first two novels, Natural Novel (published in Bulgarian in 1999) and The Physics of Sorrow (2011), he describes the disappointments of his generation, suddenly confronted with the fallout from free-market capitalism: it was a time when ‘more and more well-dressed people overcame their shame and reached into the garbage cans ... ”
