The Clay Writer

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.

Part I Essays. - The Clay Writer. - Annotations 1. - Part II Fiction. - The Telephone. - Sherlock Holmes Last Case: The Letter. -Fingernails. - Lost Illusions. - The First Loop. - Infernal Library. - Annotations 2.