Summary
Daniel Glattauer: On the train
Author of the world bestsellers When the North Blows, All Seven Waves and Forever Yours A book that celebrates love - and life itself Two strangers on a train, one conversation about love and writing - and an unexpected twist that changes everything On the train from Vienna to Munich, a writer of romance novels in a creative crisis and a woman who does not believe in love meet. Njihov početni razgovor pretvara se u duhovitu i živu raspravu o braku, iluzijama i pisanju. She is relentless and direct, he ironic and defensive. The target is men's fears and women's questions, clichés about marriage and romantic ideals, as well as the very art of writing about love. What prerequisites must a writer have in order to be able to write about love? Is twenty or thirty years of marriage an advantage - or a hindrance? Can literature still find an honest word for what has long since turned into a routine in life? And just when we think that this simultaneously humorous and serious, happy and sad conversation is the result of a chance meeting between two companions, a completely new, unexpected dimension of the story opens up. On the train is not just another love novel, but a novel about love itself - about the illusions that drive us, the contradictions that we run away from and the questions that no one has a definitive answer to. Daniel Glattauer, author of world bestsellers, leads us through a labyrinth of witty and sharp dialogues in which philosophical depth is hidden behind every quip. His heroes are charmingly imperfect, their conversations seemingly easy, but actually imbued with irony, warmth and the quiet wisdom of life.
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