The Eighth Wonder of the World

By: Jordan Plevnes, Will Firth (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 May 2020

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In his novel The Eighth Wonder of the World, Plevnes takes his dark sense of humor and undeniable wit on a search for a common ground in an uncommon world. His protagonist Alexander Simsar, during the last 3.3 seconds of his life in Berlin in 1989 (weeks before the fall of Berlin Wall), envisions the creation of a monument--an eighth wonder of the world--that would embrace humanity in all its layers and countenances. In this absurdist novel, Plevnes invents a utopia that unites many of the differences in the world: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and even Satanism.

The Eighth Wonder of the World is yet another of Jordan Plevnes's parables of hope. His preoccupation with the role of beauty in the context of social, religious, and cultural differences is front and center, as is his central question: Does humanism have a prospect of survival in the future of humankind? Plevnes suggests that survival and idealism can be found in beauty and art --and that only beauty and art have the power to save the world.

Industry Reviews

Plevnes contrasts the violence of European history with the beauty of its dramatic tragedies, scenes from the canon --Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Beckett are interwoven with the story of an artist.
The New York Times

One of Plevnes's key themes is the constant rivalry between government and the artist. In his theater, the history of politics and the history of art clash violently with each other.
Boro Drashkovich, Film Director, Vukovar

In Jordan Plevnes's playwriting we always come across a labyrinth of historical events, of the absurdities of history, of her cruelty, which he manages to convey even beyond what we call "the Theatre of the Absurd"
Jacques Lacarriere French writer, Author of The Gnostics

The Eighth Wonder of the World is a novel with a piercing irony in terms of the colossal absurdities of the world we live in today.
Hedy Bouraoui, The Literature Review

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