"Vladislavic is without doubt the most significant writer in South Africa today.”

— Focus on Africa

“The stunning language and lyric descriptions...have made Vladislavic one of the most renowned and respected writers working in South Africa today.”

— Tracey D. Samuelson, Christian Science Monitor

“ One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today.”

— André Brink

“Vladislavić is a rare, brilliant writer. His work eschews all cant. Its sheer verve, the way it burrows beneath ossified forms of writing, its discipline and the distance it places between itself and the jaded preoccupations of local fiction, distinguish it.”

— Andries Oliphant, Sunday Times

“Vladislavić is one of the great writers of the fragment...A case could be made that [The Exploded View’s]

divided form is justified by its object: Johannesburg, which is, as cliché would have it, the ‘divided’ city. But

Vladislavić’s tightly knit prose belies this diagnosis. Sensitive readers are struck by the uncanny repetitions,

haunting resonances, and resounding echoes across the novel’s parts: by the work’s and the city’s unity, not

their partition.” — Jan Steyn, The Quarterly Conversation

“Vladislavić’s strength lies in translating a place, one that is as recognizable as anything in our everyday lives but that reveals truths that have been standing in front of us the whole time.”

— Justin Alvarez, The Paris Review

“Vladislavic’s notoriously difficult works have attracted the interest of and incited arguments among scholars, who consider him a renegade for his rejection of the conventions of realist political novels and his championing of broken forms and peripheral observations.” — Jenn Mar, Kenyon Review

“One of South Africa's most finely tuned observers.” — Ted Hodgkinson, The Times Literary Supplement

“ His stylistic virtuosity, sardonic wit, playful inventiveness, and his cool intimations of menace transmute the banal into something rich and strange loaded with comic and philosophical significance…”

—Lionel Abrahams, Mail & Guardian Review of Books

“Vladislavić has made non-fiction in its many forms – critical theory, the essay, (the illusion of) memoir –

rub against the domain of storytelling, resulting in an incandescently intelligent and profound work.”

—Neel Mukherjee, The Independent

“Vladislavić’s narrative intelligence [is] nowhere more visible than in his way with language itself. Each

section is perfectly judged; we enter incidents in medias res—as though they were piano études—and exit

them before we have overstayed our welcome.” — Teju Cole