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RSS Feeds`Optimistic nihilism`: Thomas Glavinic`s ploy for getting through the Covid-19 crisis
(The Guardian Books News)

 
 

30 march 2020 06:20:01

 
`Optimistic nihilism`: Thomas Glavinic`s ploy for getting through the Covid-19 crisis
(The Guardian Books News)
 


Newspaper Die Welt has been publishing daily instalments of author´s `corona novel´Coronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe squares of Europe´s capitals are deserted, its bars and restaurants empty, once bustling roads now silent. With no one around to talk to, the only option is to surf the internet in search of nostalgic memories and answers to the unanswerable causes of a catastrophe that has changed the world as we knew it.When the Austrian author Thomas Glavinic came up with this post-apocalyptic scenario for his harrowing and critically acclaimed 2006 novel Night Work, translated into English by John Brownjohn in 2008, he had no idea how closely it would come to resemble the real world 14 years later. Continue reading...


 
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