by Evald Flisar
Translated from the Slovene by David Limon
IBSN: 9781912545537
Publication: 11 March, 2025
When the main character, a successful writer, experiences writer’s block, he withdraws from his malign fate to Berghof, a Swiss clinic. A number of famous names in world literature are already receiving treatment there, from Martin Amis, Graham Greene and Saul Bellow to J. M. Coetzee. But is Berghof really what it purports to be? And what role does the ever-silent figure of Scheherazade play in the novel? ‘My Kingdom is Dying’ is not just a hybrid of the genres of confession – detective story, memoir and fictional biography – but also a unique combination of fiction and metafiction, literature and meta-literary reflection. Readers follow a gripping story in which unusual events unobtrusively mingle with meaningful reflection and deep insights.
