Pseud: A novel

by Marko Vignjević

The very title of the book comes from the noun pseudonym, which the writer expounded into a particular type of personality, i.e. the Pseud. A Pseud is a person who will do whatever it takes to advance their social standing, this applies primarily to the Pseud passing themselves off as someone they’re not. In the novel itself this manifests first through simple agreeing with everything anyone else might do or say to the main character, namely Peh Gvidolin, and then – as all things repressed – it grows into manipulation of others, and their lives predicaments. But in the end Peh Gvidolin is met with a man better than he, the very man whom he tries to copy, emulate and even steal from. What is interesting about this short novel is that the final two chapters succeed from the notion that a work of prose must end with the main protagonist. In the instance of Pseud it ends with a man and a woman in love.

74 pages, Paperback

Published November 21, 2012