Zbytočný život

In ten stories the author comes to terms with lived memories and present troubles. Their protagonist, passing from story to story under a barely changed identity, is around forty and tries to live as a proper citizen and parent who earns his living honestly, while chaos rules Slovak society at the dawn of capitalism and everything persuades him he is useless. A schoolboy who does not go to school dreams of flying to fill empty time; a Sleeper and his family drift through a week in which one day goes missing; a richly erotic story turns out to have been only a dream; a man fails to leave his wife and child for new adventures. The unfinished dreams remain unfinished stories.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

212 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia, 1990s–2000s

First published

2006 by Koloman Kertész Bagala

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

8089129889 (original)