Kathrin Röggla
"Nachtsendung"
Book Premiere
Kathrin Röggla’s new collection of short stories can be located in the ‘uncanny tales’ genre. In her writings, she has always tended to offer a close-up of reality, but now she turns her lens on the uncanniness of our contemporary life, with its fractures and daily horror scenes. Whether she takes political speeches, the activism of enraged citizens or the fall of the middle classes, her scenarios combine to create a night-time image of our eerie present.