She he. Stories. Strauss B., comp. Hurliman T.

A collection of stories by Boto Strauss “She/He” is a book about modern men, women and their relationship. The book was prepared by the Swiss writer and playwright Thomas Hurliman. It consists of 35 stories with a pair of paragraphs to several dozen pages. The book begins and ends with excerpts from the story “Book Fairy”, in which we are talking about the relationship of the narrator with the sealing “Book Fairy”: she tries to return it from reading to reality. Thomas Hurliman about Strauss heroes: "They have something allegorical, as if they come from the baroque theater, and timeless; But along with this, they carry the phenotype of modern people, forever involved in some kind of relationship, ascended above the edge of the abyss, worried about the shadow of hopes, doomed, lonely, and now they all go on an empty scene with their monologues: the poor, poor Blunting, deceived, simple -minded, detonavian, suffering from insomnia. ” About the author: Boto Strauss (b. 1944) German writer and playwright; Laureate of many awards. His dramas go in the productions of large directors on various scenes of the world. The focus of Strauss is a man and a woman between whom is like an impenetrable wall. The characters seek to hide from the world around, afraid to be taken by surprise. Relations between a man and a woman appear in the form of incredible stories, bright, piercing, unusual, with their philosophy and subtext. The depth, subjectivity and sophistication of the perception of the inner world of contemporaries, an attempt to understand the causes of the psychological crisis of personality in close connection with the analysis of the public climate are distinguished by Strauss from writers of other literary trends in Germany.