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Euphoria
Heinz Helle
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Somewhere in the Austrian Alps, a group of men in their thirties have gathered for a weekend away. When they come down from their cabin, the world has ended.
As the men wander through this destroyed human landscape, Euphoria's nameless narrator reveals only small, shocking details - a crashed helicopter, a boy sitting impassively beside his murdered parents, a provincial nightclub full of charred bodies. Seeking food and fuel for the fire, but finding only the pointless remnants of their suddenly vanished world, the men realise that all they have left is their lives. And are those really worth anything in a world where their future has crumbled away, their past remains only as an empty taunt and their present is reduced to the monotonous trudge of animal survival?
An austere, troubling tale of how quickly men become beasts, Euphoria explores the repressed savagery of human nature and the disturbing meaningless of a world run free from society's restraints.
Rezensionen
Post-apocalyptic fiction told in scientifically precise, rhythmic language that unfolds just by its sparseness into great poetry
Leaves you shivering. In a crystal clear, poetic language Helle ... speaks of beauty and indifference of nature, the survival instincts of man, our cruelty but also our capacity for friendship.
Helle has mastered a rare tautness of expression ... it takes your breath away
Helle'
Profound and extremely unsettling with a powerful message for our increasingly hate-filled times
Makes <i>The Road </i>seem like a Disney cartoon by comparison ... Helle is an astute predictor of human nature, and part of the reason this book is so haunting is because his characters all react to their constantly-deteriorating circumstances in entirely believable though by no means predictable ways. <i>Euphoria </i>may not take long to read, but it will certainly take a long time to forget.
Kundenbewertungen
contemporary fiction, literary fiction, Dystopia, translation, translated fiction, friendship, men in crisis, end of the world, German fiction, Austria, survival, apocalypse, Austrian alps, masculinity