The Clay Writer : Shaping in Creative Writing

This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending his course, or, in a broader perspective, discouraging them from professional writing altogether, the author reflects ultimately on what it really takes to become a writer of literary fiction. This essay, which makes up the first part of this work, is complemented by a selection of witty short stories, forming the second part, and which have been used as templates in the teaching context. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Clay Writer (Zoran Živković)....Pages 3-53 Annotations 1 (Zoran Živković)....Pages 55-58 Front Matter ....Pages 59-59 The Telephone (Zoran Živković)....Pages 61-68 Sherlock Holmes’ Last Case: The Letter (Zoran Živković)....Pages 69-76 Fingernails (Zoran Živković)....Pages 77-81 Lost Illusions (Zoran Živković)....Pages 83-89 The First Loop (Zoran Živković)....Pages 91-124 Infernal Library (Zoran Živković)....Pages 125-134 Annotations 2 (Zoran Živković)....Pages 135-136