Berlin
About this book
"Berlin is a sad city, but it's a sadness you don't see. It's like having heavy metals slowly build up in your body. You can spend a few days, weeks, months, or even years here and never notice how heavy your heart has become."
A little boy who is afraid of telephones; a woman recounting to her lover her recent sexual assault; a man wondering what would happen if he woke up each morning nine minutes earlier than he had the morning before; a student who is plied by his German teacher with glass after glass of cheap wine...
The protagonists of Andris KurpriÅ”s's debut collection are at times melancholy and worrisome, and world-angry or absurdist at others. KupriÅ”s plays with tension, a building up to climaxes reminiscent of Henry Jamesābut with endings that leave a lingering sense of having missed some important detail, some sinister clue that will reveal all meaning. Deceptively simple, nostalgic, and resigned, KurpriÅ”s's characters show how it can be just as hard to arrive somewhere (physical or intangible) as it can be to leave.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Proletarian Therapy
- The Apology
- Youāre the First Person Iāve told
- The Refusal
- The Rape
- The Last Walk Before Beginning
- The Typical Fit of Melancholy: a Case Study
- Success Creates Its Own Opportunities
- The Premiere
- On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Other Languages
- A Very Special Person
- Slacker
- Fingers
- Golden Hour
- The Telephone
- A Courageous Decision
- To Gaze Out the Window
- Cold Hands
- A Pathological Case
- Two Ways in Which the Following Situation Differs
- Slippery Ice
- Berlin
- About the Authors
- Back Cover
