I, who have never known men
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I, who have never known men
14.99 €
For the first time in Russian, this paradoxical and gripping story, told by Belgian writer Jacqueline Arpman, is told.
Forty of them, locked in an underground cell on a desert planet, search for people and an explanation for how they ended up there. The youngest of them—the one from whose perspective the story is told—has never known any other life. The others, although they don't remember how they ended up in prison, retain memories of a former life with husbands, children, and cities. It happens that these forty women are released and discover a strange landscape around them, filled only with other similar cell blocks and no living people.
The story is told in an eerily calm tone and captivates the reader from the first page to the last. It tells of the tragedy of the modern world, which is doomed and yet where hope remains. Terrifying, it is imbued with sincere humanism and serves as a unique metaphor for modern society.
This book by the Belgian writer Jacqueline Arpman (1929-2012) evokes analogies with the world of Kafka, with the works of Paul Auster and Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Desert.
Forty of them, locked in an underground cell on a desert planet, search for people and an explanation for how they ended up there. The youngest of them—the one from whose perspective the story is told—has never known any other life. The others, although they don't remember how they ended up in prison, retain memories of a former life with husbands, children, and cities. It happens that these forty women are released and discover a strange landscape around them, filled only with other similar cell blocks and no living people.
The story is told in an eerily calm tone and captivates the reader from the first page to the last. It tells of the tragedy of the modern world, which is doomed and yet where hope remains. Terrifying, it is imbued with sincere humanism and serves as a unique metaphor for modern society.
This book by the Belgian writer Jacqueline Arpman (1929-2012) evokes analogies with the world of Kafka, with the works of Paul Auster and Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Desert.
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