Attila Bartis (Hungary): Klid

Translation: Kateřina Horváthová, Kniha Zlín 2010

The main hero of this novel is a young writer who is looking after his mother a former actress who had stopped leaving the house. Author, through this story which is based on Oedipus-like foundations in a dense and plastic abbreviation, unfolds chasmy mechanisms of power, addiction and humiliation which form the psychical world of those who give preference to quietness before freedom.