Verena Gotthardt: The Recent Times

„The stories in this volume are lyrically condensed explorations of memory, time, and transience. In poetic language and fragmentary form, the texts approach those moments when the world slows down: an empty square, a breaking sky, the silence between two people. It is about pausing, looking, tentative thinking – whether when viewing photographs, exploring family history, or when the protagonist of a morning decides not to get up anymore. […] The volume sees itself as a literary search for traces: for language for the unspeakable, for images for what passes, and for forms for what remains.“ (Source: Wallstein Verlag)

The author Verena Gotthardt presents her short story collection „The Youngest Time“ published by Wallstein Verlag in a conversation with Astrid Nischkauer on literadio.