Time Shelter::  International Booker’s first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas

Sukla Chatterjee

Time Shelter: International Booker’s first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas

Sukla Chatterjee

English

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Abstract

A philosophical exploration of memory and nostalgia, about forgetting and trying to hold on to our past and make sense of our present and future, Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is a worthy winner of this year’s International Booker prize.

If ours is an age of privation, this expansive novel symbolises opulence: of ideas, meanings, utopian aspirations and the bizarre brilliance of the human mind. The author convenes memory, nostalgia and history together with the individual and the nation, to chart a narrative arc over the territories of remembrance and oblivion. Above all, it is a book about time, in its fragments and in its perpetuity.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 24 May 2023

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Sukla Chatterjee does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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