Sefer by Ewa Lipska

Author:Ewa Lipska
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mingling Voices, Fiction
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2012-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

I loved roaming aimlessly round the town with Maria. We strolled into bars, old neglected parts of town, dingy parks where spilled rubbish frightened the visitors and the greenery seemed wracked with agony. I was amazed by the funeral parlours located opposite hospitals. I imagined a patient staring at the black and silver letters of “Epitaph,” “Hearse,” “Dahlia,” or “Lily.” I was quite taken aback by the triviality of it all. The hospital in Dolnych Młynów Street had a firm advertising funeral services on one side and the Groteska Puppet Theatre on the other. Perhaps death does have something grotesque about it, think of Hans Baldung Grien’s paintings where Death’s drawn to plump young ladies and a merry life. Over my desk in Vienna I’ve a copy of an Edvard Munch that I bought in Oslo, Death and the Maiden, the essence of eroticism, bliss, and terror.

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