Passage
PASSAGE
a novel about what is missing
Translated from Serbian by Betty Delaunay (AI)
For Betty Delaunay, my literary sister.
Description
Within the closed system of a luxury hotel, the disappearance of a guest and the discovery of an unidentified body set off a series of shifts that expose an invisible network of passages and substitutions. As the investigation searches for an explanation, the hidden system grows increasingly complex. A crucial object — a fragment that belongs to no whole — changes everything.
Passage is a novel about what remains between things, about systems that function until they are interrupted, and about the decision not to restore the whole.
A psychological-metaphysical crime novel about hidden systems of power, identity and control, set in a luxury hotel where nothing is recorded — except what cannot disappear.
Contents
Part I — The Hotel
- 1 — Arrival
- 2 — Space
- 3 — The Room
- 4 — Betty
- 5 — The Apartment
- 6 — Two Rooms
- 7 — Objects
- 8 — The Garden
- 9 — The Lounge
- 10 — The Arrangement
- 11 — The Setup
- 12 — The Reaction
- 13 — Entry
- 14 — Recognition
- 15 — The Line
- 16 — Observation
Part II — The Arrangement
- 17 — The Body
- 18 — Position
- 19 — Control
- 20 — Retention
- 21 — Passage
- 22 — Trace
- 23 — Direction
- 24 — Closing In
Part III — The Network
- 25 — The Network
- 26 — Interrogation
- 27 — Movement
- 28 — Break
- 29 — The Bistro
- 30 — The Discovery
- 31 — The Whole
- 32 — The Encounter
- Record
About the Author
Claire Delaunay
Claire Delaunay is the literary pseudonym of Serbian writer Jasmina Mihajlović.
Under this name she writes the Marseille Trilogy — Passage, Between and Second Life — a cycle of novels that combines psychological fiction, crime, memory and metaphysical themes. Set in Marseille and Lyon, the trilogy explores hidden systems of identity, invisible structures of power, intimate relationships, and the fragile boundary between reality and illusion.
Jasmina Mihajlović
Jasmina Mihajlović is a Serbian writer, essayist and literary scholar.
She is the author of numerous novels, books of essays and literary studies, and one of the foremost interpreters of the work of Milorad Pavić, whose literary legacy she manages. Her books, essays and scholarly works have been published and translated in several countries.
Alongside her work under her own name, she writes fiction under the literary pseudonym Claire Delaunay, through which she develops the Marseille Trilogy (Passage, Between and Second Life).
Her work explores memory, identity, literature, art, dreams and the hidden structures that shape human lives.
