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Ihar Babkou
The novel in twelve stories from the life of the courageous enlightener and encyclopaedist Adam Klakotsky is a classic novel of post-classical Belarusian literature, in which local reality is viewed through the magical crystal of day and night dreams. The third, expanded version of the novel contains two new stories - Autumn in Hrodna and Holes - as well as the editor's notes, which on closer inspection turn out to be notes by an unknown reader found by the author in Klakotsky's archive in 2023. In the afterword by Franciszek N., the postcolonial concept of the hallucinogenic presence of the self as the other is used for the first time in Belarusian literary studies.
Ihar Babkou is a Belarusian writer, philosopher and translator. In the 1980s he was associated with the independent literary groups Babylon and Die Hiesigen. He was editor of the magazine Fragmente for many years. As a philosopher, he is primarily concerned with post-colonialism. Multi-award-winning author of poetry collections, short story collections and novels.
The publishing house Lohvinaŭ was founded in 2000 as an independent publishing house and specialises primarily in Belarusian-language literature. Lohvinaŭ has authors such as Alhierd Bacharevich, Valiancin Akudovich, Ales Rasanaŭ, Natalka Babina and Artur Klinaŭ under contract. The Lohvinaŭ bookshop was an important venue for events and meetings in Minsk. The publishing house's licence was revoked in 2013 and since then it has been operating in exile in Lithuania as the Lohvinaŭ House of Literature.
Publication date: The book was published in January 2025 and can be ordered from the publisher Ihar Lohvinau.
Ihar Babkou, ‘Von Fischen und Menschen’, published on 17 March 2022 by дekoder | DEKODER | Journalism from Russia and Belarus in German translation.