Na drugem koncu sveta

The hero, Vinc Hardt, is an artist whom the indifference of modern times has carried, really or perhaps only in imagination, from his Carinthian homeland to distant lands. In a remote harbour town he lives through strange moments, sensing everything around him decay and dissolve. Alongside him stand a retired dock worker who endlessly repairs the boat he hopes to take out to sea and a man on a doorstep trying to piece forgotten words together from letters, figures of the loss of identity and of a mother tongue. Memories of Slovene Carinthian people and places run through the story, and at its centre is a grotesque tale of three famous paintings stolen from a major museum, with Carinthian titles, which Hardt may have painted himself.

AI-generated summary

About the book

Form

Novel

Length

188 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Austria

First published

2020 by Mohorjeva

ISBN

9783708610382 (original)