Odsun
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Odsun
14.99 €
11.99 €
Alexei Varlamov is a prose writer, philologist, and author of the novels My Soul Pavel and The Myshlennyi Volk, as well as biographies of Russian writers of the twentieth century. Winner of the Anti-Booker, Big Book, Student Booker and Alexander Solzhenitsyn Literary Award.
The hero of Alexei Varlamov's new novel "Odsun" in the late 2010s comes to the Czech Republic to lecture on literature, but instead of the university finds himself in an old house in the Sudetes, once belonged to a family of Sudeten Germans. The mystery of this house and the tragic fate of its inhabitants after World War II provoke in the hero a sharp reflection-remembrance, where personal drama and what is commonly called the big story come together. "I sit far past midnight in the deserted Green Toad. I am surrounded only by the skins of slaughtered animals, dark mirrors, antique cabinets, beer kegs, mugs, and empty television screens, but I feel that I am still not alone in this world where boundaries and times are mixed up. I am flanked by shadows, I hear distant laughter, exclamations, other people's rough speech, but we cannot cross paths."
The hero of Alexei Varlamov's new novel "Odsun" in the late 2010s comes to the Czech Republic to lecture on literature, but instead of the university finds himself in an old house in the Sudetes, once belonged to a family of Sudeten Germans. The mystery of this house and the tragic fate of its inhabitants after World War II provoke in the hero a sharp reflection-remembrance, where personal drama and what is commonly called the big story come together. "I sit far past midnight in the deserted Green Toad. I am surrounded only by the skins of slaughtered animals, dark mirrors, antique cabinets, beer kegs, mugs, and empty television screens, but I feel that I am still not alone in this world where boundaries and times are mixed up. I am flanked by shadows, I hear distant laughter, exclamations, other people's rough speech, but we cannot cross paths."
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