Description
Thirty-eight micro-stories – poetic micro-reflections – whose main theme is loneliness. Loneliness in life and death, loneliness in love, relationships, in society, but also the loneliness of ordinary things that accompany us through life. A collection that inevitably brings to mind Wolker and his works, which we look at "as if they were not alive, yet they live and look at us with concentrated eyes like faithful dogs and suffer." But the suffering of solitude also has something very purifying about it – a unique value of pausing in the eternal cycle of events and faces that drive us through the world, understanding and reconciling with the situation, with that irreversible fact that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry formulated in the sentence: "We can be lonely even among people." A book worth pausing over…
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Author: Štrajtová Lucie
Publication date: August 28, 2015
Manufacturer: Beletris s.r.o.
Genres: Czech and slovak fiction, Books, Fiction
Pages: 112
ISBN/EAN: 9788075200259