Novel
Миракули на грозомората
Not translated into English
Slavko Janevski · 1984
Synopsis
Three novels brought together, with the imaginary village of Kukulino, in the Middle Ages, at their centre. We follow the generations of a single tribe in a world of vice, despair and disorder, where history mingles with myth: vampires and evil spirits prowl around the village, the monks pray in their cells, the battles are bloody, and betrayal, vengeance and love answer one another. In the first volume, the figure of the vampire takes centre stage.
Context
The three novels, Легионите на Свети Адофонис, Кучешко распетие and Чекајќи чума, appeared in 1984, co-published by Kultura, Makedonska kniga and Misla, and were then gathered under this title. They belong to the Kukulino cycle, about ten volumes that follow Kerubin's tribe over fourteen centuries. The trilogy received the Miroslav Krleža prize and was translated into Russian by Nina Smirnova, in 1990. Nikolinka Nolevska studied in 2019 the living dead man of the first volume, alongside two other Balkan novels.
Who it is for
In Macedonian, three volumes, with no French translation. It is better to let oneself be carried along by the mixture of tale, chronicle and parable.
Prizes and reception
Awarded a prize in Yugoslavia, the trilogy belongs to the cycle of novels that made its author a classic of his literature.