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“Lucid Dream” (title translated by AI)

Olga Flor (born 1968)

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Can a great passion, desire as much as pain, be handled with reason? Can love come in economical portions? Two people begin an affair that is not meant to be unconditional: it must not damage either of their family lives. Told after the fact, the novel can only go back over how the attempt fails. She wants to talk; he withdraws into silence. With irony and wit, the story weaves the lovers' private crisis into the social and political crises of the present, and becomes a typology of love between the sexes, still shaped, in 2017, by who speaks and who stays silent.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

281 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

First published

2017 by Jung und Jung Verlag

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9783990270967 (original)