The Exploded View

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{{Short description|2004 stories by Ivan Vladislavic}}

The Exploded View is a quartet of stories by Ivan Vladislavic published in 2004.{{Cite journal |last=Ajibade |first=Mayowa |date=10 November 2020 |title=Johannesburg Drift: Variations of the Uncanny in Ivan Vladislavić's The Exploded View |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-journal-of-postcolonial-literary-inquiry/article/abs/johannesburg-drift-variations-of-the-uncanny-in-ivan-vladislavics-the-exploded-view/7BC5C99AA1BB0CFF8767F0BBD4B82F61 |journal=Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry |language=en |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=80–93 |doi=10.1017/pli.2020.28 |issn=2052-2614 |quote=...The Exploded View (2004)... ...Vladislavić’s The Exploded View is a quartet of four stylistically similar stories, of more or less equal length, arranged laterally, as in a four-panel installation.|url-access=subscription }} The stories revolve around four very different gauteng residents in Johannesburg: a statistician employed on the national census, an engineer out on the town with his council connections, an artist with an interest in genocide, and a contractor who erects billboards on building sites; each tries to make sense of a changed world after the demise of apartheid.