Aviaries

This quasi-diary, dated from December 2012 to February 2015, records a neurotically sensitive perception of the world. A woman wants to break out of her solitude, to find and feel the closeness of another person and somehow fit into the present, but she cannot overcome her fears and her weariness at being wounded again and again by indifference. Her fragile universe, in which her daughter, mother and sister keep returning, stands against the world outside, represented by terse, empty media headlines. Everyday notes shift into general and symbolic statements about loneliness and being lost in a world that has stopped making sense, where the present seems to produce only black humour, oddity and emptiness.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

122 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

Set in

Czechia, 2012–2015

First published

2016 by Druhé město

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9788072273812 (original)

9788086264516 (Twisted Spoon Press, Czechia)