Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
La Dolce Vita | Sweet life
by Roman Malynovsky
Description
"Sweet Life" is a collection of short stories united by mood and plot spirals. In "Twenty-Five Days" Luka sits in the chair of a hairdresser in the immigrant quarter of Berlin. They speak different languages, and the only way to understand each other is through gestures and touches. Their the inner language guides them until the twenty-fifth day arrives. In "Cairo Express", David travels on a transcontinental train and carries a secret cargo to the final station. However, the comfort of this journey is in danger. In "The Write-off", the girl receives an urgent task. "After all, who else could be entrusted with this matter," she thinks after hearing the order.To fulfill it, she goes to meet with Terakotov. Thirteen stories full of internal dramas, experiences, passion, rage, adoration. The stories are full of flavors and sensory perceptions - sweet and not only. They are cinematic: while reading, you will feel the space physically - fabrics, colors, shades, surfaces. This book is full of mystery and playfulness, anxiety, but also airy lightness. "Sweet Life" invites you to play, to travel by planes and trains, rooms and houses, metropolises and continents. Calls for a journey through the boundless, unfathomable cosmos of human nature. Trust the heroes - they will become your guides and show the way in the intricate labyrinth of stories.
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Author Biography
Roman Malynovsky. is a Ukrainian writer and publisher. He is a co-founder, editor-in-chief, and art-manager of "Babylonian library" publishing house, founder of "Civilization" publishing project. In 2003, he co-founded the literary almanac "Steam Cuckoo". In 2005-7, he was a member of the editorial board and a journalist of the youth magazine "Plastilin". In 2008, he became the project manager of the "King George Charitable Foundation", where he was the head and author of the project "Voting Rights of Ukraine for the Blind" - a book printed in Braille and the festival of short films "Procedure 1503", dedicated to the topic of human rights. In 2008-12, he was the curator of the literary program of the "Train to Yaremchy" festival. In 2010, he worked in the art department of "Emotions FEST Holding!" (Lviv). Since 2014, he has been the curator of the development of visual art in the "Warm City" public organization, where he was a co-organizer of a residency for artists. Since working in the "Warm City" he has held residencies for Pavel Altgamer ("Congress of Painters" project, curator - Yevhen Samborskyi), Slawomir Zbyok Tchaikovsky ("Fresh Paint" project, co-curators - Yevhen Samborskyi and Lilia Gogol), Serhiy Radkevich ("Fragments" project of visual manipulation", curator — Vitaly Grekh). In 2013, together with his partners, he founded the Babylonian Library publishing house. In 2018, he founded the publishing project "Civilization" for experimental book projects that do not fall under the format of "The Babylonian libabry". In 2015, he was a scholarship recipient of the Gaude Polonia program of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. As part of the scholarship, he created the MONO project, a collection of interviews with Ukrainian translators of the works of Stanislav Vincenz, Bruno Schultz, and Zygmunt Haupt, as well as essays dedicated to these authors.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Meridian Czernowitz
- Publication Date 2021
- Orginal LanguageUkrainian
- ISBN/Identifier 9786178024185
- Publication Country or regionUkraine
- Pages176
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleСолодке життя
- Original Language AuthorsМалиновський Роман
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