Papp-Zakor Ilka - Az last állatkert - Acinizmus sorsa Kelet-Közép-Európában

What is Budapest like when only animals freed from the zoo roam around? In Ilka Papp-Zakor's short stories, the absurd relationships we are used to nowadays are dragged into the realm of fantasy. The violent, selfish, silly or just sad characters that we are, we get mixed up with the nonhuman world: sooner or later my mother is a brick-colored locomotive, the abandoned, pregnant girl has twin begonias of nine, my grandmother is home to insects and all kinds of animals, the phone-intruding aggs are their pets, the assisted by knocking walls. I would not have thought that the natural history of East-Central European cynicism could be so amusing. (Zsuzsa Seleym) Reading the second volume of Ilka Papp-Zakor, we turn the pages of a delirious, amorphous picture book that is both bizarre and familiar. We examine the secrets of scraped, eczematous wounds and hidden tattoos in the nameless curved mirrors of Central and Eastern Europe, while we get to know ourselves in the magical portraits of loneliness, love, and cynicism. For our anxieties about old age and death, the phone ringing or love. Ilka Papp-Zakor is a dynamic and witty storyteller who does not measure black humor too narrowly.

Kalligram Publishing House
Fiction
179 pages
Binding: hardboard, with protective cover
ISBN: 9789634680611
Author: Ilka Papp-Zakor