Name: Na kraju zapisano
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ISBN: 9789612980146

Written on Site

Na kraju zapisano

Aleš Šteger

Genre:: Genre hybrid
Year of publication:: 2023
Number of pages:: 684
Rights sold:: Austria (Haymon), Serbia (Arhipelag)
Available reading materials:: German pdf, English sample translation

Ljubljana (Slovenia), Minamisōma (Japan), Ciudád de Máxico (Mexico), Belgrade (Serbia), Kochi (India), Solovki (Russia), Shanghai (China), Bautzen/Budyshin (Germany), Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Magellan Strait (Chile), Hargeisa (Somaliland) and White Sands (USA).
Twelve cities and landscapes, twelve years, twelve attempts to capture in twelve hours, through observation, language and photography, a diverse, intimate and enlightening portrait of life on our planet.
Aleš Šteger travels to twelve fascinating places, off the beaten track, throwing himself into the hustle and bustle of hectic metropolises, to encounter touching human fates. With an alert mind and a sharp pencil, his finger always ready on the shutter release, Šteger captures moments that encapsulate these twelve extraordinary places. Through his precise observations, he condenses the essentials of our time, bringing the people and atmospheres of the landscapes and cities he visits vividly to life.
Written on Site is a writer's testimony to our times. With accompanying essays by Péter Nádas, Albert Manguel and Carolyn Forché.

Winged Turtle Award for best Slovenian travel book of the year 2018

Shortlisted for the Cankar Award for best literary work of the year 2024

An artistic-political project that will continue to attract attention for years to come.

SWR
Aleš Šteger’s writings do not endeavour to be analyses of geopolitical upheavals or neo-colonial atrocities. They do not provide answers. But they do guide us to look closer.

Tyroler Tageszeitung
An incredible post-literary event, both a conceptual art and a literary event, with a personal philosophical vision.

Severin’s Choice
… the actual site chosen is language itself, in the form it takes when radically exposed to an elsewhere of body, mind or spirit. This is a book of twelve elsewheres, yes, but also of twelve journeys within. A book of mind and awareness as much as it is of the human condition revealed in twelve parts of the world.

Carolyn Forché
From such minute observations, from Šteger’s attempt to chronicle the world through the encounter of chance fragments, there follows this: that beyond the reconstruction of the whole Gestalt through a random observed part, is the deletion of a part (or several parts) to hint at the unimaginable whole. If all cannot be said then incompletion must suffice. Poets take that risk. They believe (like Šteger does) that, by and large, language is a game, and that sometimes, rarely, if the stars are kind, a meaning might be conveyed in the utterance of words.

Alberto Manguel
Aleš Šteger is a master of the impossible poetic expression. His prudence, his cautiousness, his circumspection have most probably been received from the gods, who have also given him a beautiful smile.

Péter Nádas