Summary
Guy Helminger: Always Something Missing
Stories
Always Something Missing, by the Luxembourgish writer Guy Helminger, is a collection of extremely suggestive and refinedly interwoven short stories. In them, the unexpected and disdainful penetrate into everyday life, subtly or lightning fast, as in Pasolini's Theorem. The characters waver on the border between illusion and reality, react inappropriately, or get into situations that bring out suppressed emotions: they boil in every person. Because everyone lacks something.
A passionate cyclist has a passion for hitting pedestrians on the back of the head and goes after a woman who, after a traffic accident, cannot defend herself from his intrusiveness - does he love her or is he endangering her? At halftime of a soccer match, a man goes to buy cigarettes and when he returns, he can no longer find his apartment. One newcomer leads to debates in the neighborhood - is he doing something dangerous or are there actually dangerous and suspicious speculations about him that are increasingly alienating?
Helminger immerses the events of his stories in flickering light and describes with endless charm how the civilized corset can be torn - and how the search for what is missing continues.
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