The collection of stories of the Swiss writer and artist Adelhaid Duvanel (1936-1996) included fifty-seven short stories: “Hat”, “The most ordinary washing”, “Rooster named Oygen”, “Clouds”, “Museum of points”, “Photography”, “History with the window”, “The first concrete church of Europe”, etc. In each of them. Behind the uniqueness of the author’s intonation, a special space opens, where strange but not devoid of dignity, the characters – with tragic, comical, simple and amazing stories. Prose Duvanel seeks to overcome the world in which the personality has become a synonym for social success, influence and growth. The writer with sad irony creates the images of her characters, “free subjects.” Her style is inherent in a kind of author’s realism, when each thing symbolically and metaphorically comments on what is happening: everything is considered unusually intently, often as a social symptom and at the same time as that which can gain private life. The book includes the essay of the Swiss literary critic …
Author
Duvanel Adelhaide
Editor
Chezholov G.S.
Translator
Filippov-Chekhov Alexander
Publisher
Book Center Rudomino, 2014
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