Bellevue
translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood
October 2019
219 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9934467-7-1
Bellevue, originally published by Marenčin PT in 2010, was Ivana Dobrakovová's second book. The novel offers an unflinching portrayal of gradual descent into mental illness as it follows the experience of a young Slovak woman in an international youth camp at a centre for disabled people near Marseille.
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More About This Title in the Press
- “Bellevue by Ivana Dobrakovová” by Corine Tachtiris in World Literature Today, July 2020
- “Translating Transnational Anxiety” by Daniel W. Pratt in Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2020
- “Review: Ivana Dobrakovová, Bellevue” by Helen Vassallo on Translating Women, January 2020
- “Lucy Popescu reviews three novels by Slovak authors on tour” on BookBlast, November 2019
- “Raising the Velvet Curtain: A Journey Through Contemporary Slovak Arts” by Paul Burke in NB, November 2019
- “Madness and Misanthropy” by Donald Rayfield in Literary Review, October 2019
- “Lucy Popescu reviews Bellevue by Ivana Dobrakovová” in Riveting Reviews (European Literature Network), October 2019
- “Ivana Dobrakovová — Bellevue” by Ellie Howe on the Two in a Teacup blog, September 2019