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What do the utopias of 25- to 35-year-old film students look like in 2007? Why
is this generation enthusiastic about giving literary form to a world of wishes and dreams? Should this be seen as escape, as inner emigration, or as
a hopeful departure towards bringing the seemingly impossible into the reality of our world? Anyone wanting to find the answer must read this book, because there is no
short, universally valid answer to these questions. Each story offers its own individual answer. There is the fourteen-year-old, highly sensitive boy
with distinctly autistic traits, who lives somewhere in provincial Brandenburg, has withdrawn into a dream world and, paradoxically, reflects reality more precisely than any purely external description could. Or the young man who, because his love is too great for the person to whom he has offered it, has withdrawn into a Kaaba. Or the futuristic DJ who,
trapped in a glass cube, observes the slow collective extinction of the world. It is not loud, fire-breathing apocalypses that preoccupy this generation. Its soul dies silently and unspectacularly. Effortlessly ground down by seemingly unalterable economic laws. The professional love of the future
dispenses with feelings, and the mother/son drama in the futuristic wellness complex
unfolds casually. So it is a pleasure when the whisky comes to life and indulges in one last devilish joke! For, as we learn in the fifth
season, without the destructive, the evil, happiness very quickly degenerates into endless boredom.
256 Pages, Paperback, 112×190 mm (D)
EUR 13.90 / (A) EUR 14.30 / (CH) CHF 25.50
ISBN 978-3-9810943-3-6
Available through bookshops or directly from Primero-Verlag:
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