Odlety / Take-offs

Alta Vášová's fragmentary notes (this time presented a bit differentely than in her books Úlety or Dolety) of an intensifying sense of the flow of time –  from the utmost personal and intimate up to noting of the contemporary atmosphere, intersections of social strains and neuroses into the seemingly secure seclusion of a self-reflecting perosnality. Vášová's lofty point of view is concentrated in austere, percolated sentences which – despite their austerity – are built as a poetic text, with ideas full of inner dynamic and a rhythm underscored by sadness persuade the reader with an unforced urgency to accept "their way". The securities offered by family, friends, the closest surroundings, but also by a healing seclusion present a recourse for the awareness of an anchoring of the self. 

Publisher

Number of pages

164

Year

2019

Book category

General Fiction

Issue

1.

Published in

Bratislava

ISBN

978-80-89499-53-3

Book cover

Paperback