Pes na ceste

A retired publisher's editor known only as Iks Ypsilon sets out in the footsteps of Thomas Bernhard, the Austrian writer who scolded his own country and people, and in Bernhard's spirit, drawing on memories of his own part in literary life, takes a ruthless look at Slovak society, Slovak writers and readers, and the weak points of national and cultural identity. Reflections inspired by a single sentence of the perpetually angry Austrian are interwoven with the story of a chance, brief but all the more intense and tragic affair between the ageing man and a woman who is still young. The narrator mostly observes and reflects, and the essay is the book's dominant mode, its tone softened by humour and irony.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

155 pages in the original

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2010 by Kalligram

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9788081013904 (original)