Summary
Benjamin Kunkel: Indecision
We live in a time where freedom of choice is one of the basic principles: we can choose where we live, what we do, we can choose our nationality and even our gender. We live in a time of constant choices, between dozens of types of juices and chocolates in the store, endless rows of t-shirts and pullovers, types of cars, colors of the walls in the apartment... We are freed from any compulsion, except that we have to choose something.
That is why the hero of the novel "Indecision" is a typical hero from the beginning of the third millennium, because of this, in his almost allegorical life story, we can recognize and become aware of our own indecisions, especially when they are so deep that they prevent us from loving, deciding on love and taking at least one, small, first step that leads us out of our own closed shell towards another human being.
Kunkel's novel "Indecision" is mostly intended for the generation of today's thirty-year-olds who cannot decide to grow up - to get a job, become independent, admit to themselves what they want in life.
If you are close to forty and still live with your parents, run from one part-time job to another and you treat your love life like shopping for trendy clothes, "Indecision" by young Benjamin Kunkel is the right reader choice for you.
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