Description
Sometimes it happens that halfway through a race, you forget why you are competing in the first place. Life can come to a standstill. Whether it’s the awareness of death, personal failure, lost illusions, or simple fear, anxieties, doubts, and questions inevitably come along with them. These are moments that force you to reflect on your existence in a clear light, whose glow often does not favor social conventions and the idea of 'being like others.' And what it does favor seems so terrifying, mesmerizing, and tempting at the same time... Prose writer Viktorie Hanišová, after three novels, explores a more subtle and compact space of short stories. The thematically connected brisk texts are like well-intentioned slaps: they hurt, but they wake you up. Just like the protagonists of the stories from Dlouhá trať, the reader must often stop and ask themselves: What does all this mean? It may not be a pleasant thought, but once you start, you cannot go back. The same can be said about Dlouhá trať. It may not be anything pleasing — but you cannot stop reading.
Information
Author: Hanišová Viktorie
Publication date: September 30, 2020
Manufacturer: Host - vydavatelství, s. r. o.
Genres: Czech and slovak fiction, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 192
ISBN/EAN: 9788027503728