Karl-Markus Gauß
Fame in the Afternoon
Details about the book
- date of publication: 27.02.2012
- 288 Pages
- Zsolnay
- hardcover
- ISBN 978-3-552-05567-4
- Deutschland: 19,90 €
- Österreich: 20,50 €
- ePUB-Format
- E-Book ISBN 978-3-552-07320-3
- E-Book Deutschland: 12,99 €
In a series of observations that transcend time, national boundaries and genre, Gauß ruminates on life and death.
He describes a girl in Britain who turns her impending death into a public spectacle and looks into the latest fad in the art world – a predilection for designer skulls. By turns poetic and polemic, witty and moving, Gauß once again pulls out all the stops to give us a book that can also be read as a novel in diary form. As always, his central focus is on the question of how to live a good and proper life in the face of the challenges of our time without relinquishing our right to happiness.