Running Away is Easier While Sitting Down

Stories full of absurdity and hopelessness about people who cannot act any other way although they would like to.

There’s the old couple who tries to work out who has to take which medicine in what quantity at what time and what that means for their everyday life. Or the villagers who suffer from attacks by the dog Karl until they realize that his bites have healing power – after which he stops biting them.

Following his highly acclaimed collection of stories Maybe This Time another collection of stories but with a slight change in tone: here a sense for grotesque humor alleviates the anxiety the stories engender.

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  • Publisher: Kiepenheuer&Witsch
  • Release: 24.09.2009
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-04137-8
  • 144 Pages
  • Author: Alois Hotschnig
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Alois Hotschnig

Alois Hotschnig , born in Carinthia in 1959, lives as a freelance author in Innsbruck. In 1992 he was awarded the Prize of the Province of Carinthia at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt, in the same year his novel "Leonardo's Hands" was published, for which he received the Anna Seghers Prize. In 2000 his second novel "Ludwig's Room" was published. In 2002 he was awarded the Italo Svevo Prize. In addition to his novels, he has written several collections of short stories, most recently "Running Away is Easier While Sitting Down" (2009). He was awarded the Erich Fried Prize for "Maybe This Time" and the Gert Jonke Prize for his narrative work. The books have been translated into numerous languages. Alois Hotschnig also writes plays and radio plays.  

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