Rise and Fall of Parkinson's

Exploring sanity and insanity, truth and untruth, The Rise and Fall of Parkinsons Disease is Svetislav Basaras unblinking and unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche.Told as an eclectic collection of appropriated testimonies, treatises, missives, and police files, The Rise and Fall of Parkinsons Disease follows the progression of the contagions patient zero, a Soviet citizen (sometimes) named Demyan Lavrentyevich Parkinson, as he ascends from hellish health to the sacred illness. Hailed as one of Serbias most influential living writers, Svetislav Basaras scathing, irreverent critiques of authoritarianism have twice won him Serbias prestigious NIN Award. In The Rise and Fall of Parkinsons Disease, Basara lives up to this reputation with a book as formally ambitious as it is intellectually sophisticated. His blend of grotesque absurdism and wry humor evokes the paranoid, vexing worlds of Franz Kafkas novels and the meta-textual assemblages of Paul Auster. Told from a colorful range of perspectives, the novel is a multifaceted, crystalline account of truth, lies, and history, a sprawling case study of humans in an inhuman society.