Atavisms American Literature Series “Michal Ajvaz is a literary

“Michal Ajvaz is a literary magician creating worlds of worlds

vegetarian

and seems innocent as to the perverse nature of his taboo attachments

familial conflicts that deepen and widen to reflect the hardships of Depression-era life

Atavisms American Literature Series “Michal Ajvaz is a literaryan original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present and beyond. Here is a group portrait of the individual lives that together shape a collective history. Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present and beyond. These thirteen stories, though not linked in the traditional sense, abound in common