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Daldossi oder Das Leben des Augenblicks
“Daldossi, or The Life of the Moment” (title translated by AI)
Sabine Gruber (born 1963)
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Bruno Daldossi is a successful photographer who has spent years in crisis and war zones for a Hamburg magazine: Chechnya, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan. In his early sixties he goes on fewer and fewer missions, and when Marlis, the zoologist he has lived with in Vienna for decades, leaves him for another man, the hardened man loses all footing and turns to drink. His grief over the lost love mixes more and more with the question of how to live with the suffering he has captured in his pictures. Sixteen descriptions of photographs run through the novel, but not a single image: how much truth, and how much closeness, can anyone bear?
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 315 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2016 by C. H. Beck
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9783406697401 (original)