Municipal Library Prague

Milena Oda (Czech Republic): Piquadrat

Translation: Hana Linhartová, 2009

The main character of the short story written by the German writing author of Czech origin is a mathematician Pius, whose obsession with the perfect world of numbers and especially the fascination with Ludolf’s number brings him to the very brim of sanity. The whole text is an imagined anxious monologue, both absurd and funny copying the steadfastness of Pius’s persistent ideas.