Ágota Kristòf - I Don’t Care Stories London and Elias Rodriques

and Elias Rodriques

desire and grief are a double-edged subject

Often without us even noticing them

slips between affection and fear

New stories include Robin Muir’s essay on how illustrator Charles Dana Gibson defined a fin-de-siècle feminine ideal with his drawing The Weaker Sex II and how photographer Horst P

Ágota Kristòf - I Don’t Care Stories London and Elias RodriquesTranslated by Chris Andrews Here, in English at last, is a collection of gota Kristfs shortsometimes very shortstories, which she selected herself, translated by the peerless Chris Andrews. Written immediately before her masterful trilogy (The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie), Kristfs short fictions oscillate between parables, surrealist anecdotes, and stories animated by a realism stripped to the bone, often returning to the theme of exile: the