Jonas Karlsson Knihy

Mám celkom obyčajný život, nič zvláštne. Dovŕšil som tridsaťdeväť rokov, pracujem na čiastočný úväzok vo videopožičovni v Štokholme. Na prilepšenie mám ešte neveľké dedičstvo po rodičoch. Väčšina mojich priateľov a známych má plnú hlavu starostí o rodinu, deti, firmu či auto. Ja som sám a bývam v malom prenajatom byte. Je však pohodlný, do okien mi svieti slnko a rád počúvam živé zvuky z ulice podo mnou. Hneď vedľa je napríklad stánok so zmrzlinou tých najlepších príchutí. Rád ležím na pohovke, pozerám filmy alebo si púšťam cédečká a samota ma nebolí. V podstate mi môj život vyhovuje a som šťastný. Áno, šťastný. Jedného dňa sa však všetko obráti hore nohami. Spokojnému starému mládencovi príde faktúra na rovných 5 700 000 švédskych korún. Život je drahý a za šťastie treba platiť. Tak to aspoň tvrdí Maud, operátorka telefonickej linky spoločnosti Svetové redistribučné centrum. Maud je chápavá a klientovi by rada dopriala nejaký odpočet zo sumy, ktorá sa po prepočítaní ešte zdvojnásobila. Ako na to? Čím nešťastnejší človek, tým menšia dlžoba!

The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the Room that he can really shine. The Room is a short, sharp and fiendish fable in the tradition of Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Kauffman.

In this trilogy of novellas, Jonas Karlsson explores the quirkier side of human nature, helping us to see the world anew via three eccentric narrators. Firstly, jobsworth Bjorn starts a new career and expects to progress quickly with his meticulousness and efficiency.

"The narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. He works at a bakery counter, and in his free time organizes (and reorganizes) his record collection. He's not up to much the day his old school friend Magnus invites him to a circus, and he's certainly not expecting the simple outing to change everything in his life. But while participating in a magic trick Magnus vanishes--completely. Struggling to piece together the events that led to his friend's inexplicable disappearance, the narrator comes to realize that even the most basic facts about his life are suddenly uncertain. His friend Jallo claims to have never met Magnus, even though they went to school together. Magnus's apartment seems deserted, but is the narrator at the right address? And who is the mysterious person who keeps calling him on the phone but never says a word? Sharply unsettling, wildly clever, and its secrets exquisitely kept--The Circus is a funhouse mirror of a read, a mastery of double-meaning as well as a moving excavation of friendship, identity, and the stories we tell about ourselves"--

In Jonas Karlssons Erzählungen wird der Alltag auf den Kopf gestellt, als vertraute Logik versagt. Eine Gruppe von Großstädtern wird mit unerwarteten Ereignissen konfrontiert, die ihre Leben miteinander verknüpfen. Die Geschichten zeigen, wie fragil unsere Selbstverständlichkeiten sind und laden den Leser ein, die tiefere Wahrheit hinter den Zufällen zu entdecken.