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Getman A. Shmel'
Getman A. Shmel'
| Author | Getman A. |
| Title | Shmel' |
| Description | Vera is twenty-four years old. She has just separated from her husband, found a good job and now shares a flat with a neighbour who is a psychoanalyst. Around her stretch the traces of suitcase wheels left by hundreds of acquaintances, and social media offers contradictory advice on how to live inside a catastrophe. As Vera subscribes to news channels, unsubscribes from them and then subscribes again, a contented bumblebee buzzes louder and louder inside her. Vera’s anxiety finally merges with the general panic. Time after time, she hopes she has found a way out, without noticing that she is walking in circles.
This is a story about how quietly a disorder can direct a person, force them to adapt to others and impose guilt for any attempt to turn off the path. It is also about an important property of anxiety that is rarely discussed: it very much wants to grow, and it feeds on other people’s external anxiety. It gladly embeds itself in global catastrophes and crises; this is its own authorial space. And when there is nothing suitable in the outside world, it forces a person to create catastrophes on the scale of their own life. The path of a person with an anxiety disorder is an endless rushing back and forth between “I have finally found a new path” and “ah, so this is the very same forest”. Anya Getman is a contemporary Russian writer, literary mentor and blogger. She is known to a wide audience through her blog and books on writing. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Poljandrija |
| Pages | 256 |
| Cover | Paperback |
| ISBN | 978-5-6050404-9-1 |
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180.00 kr.