Tremolo ostinato

Told in short chapters, this 'non-novel' mixes several streams of consciousness: reflections on everyday events, the commute, the repeated tasks of house and garden, the narrator's passing moods. Its second strand is memory, scenes from long ago that stuck as pictures, with pieces of their context, among them relatives and close friends now dead. Throughout runs a search for a personal answer to the most natural questions: who am I, what is music when it makes sense without words, and whether, and for whom, to speak or to write.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

278 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovakia

First published

2020 by Slovart

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9788055641959 (original)