Malinois

Lukas Bärfuss portrays a unsettling cartography of passions in his first volume of stories.

The vanishing points in Lukas Bärfuss’s stories are love and obsession. The objects of desire include a brother-in-law, with whom a man falls in love. Or a mother – although she died long ago, a playwright still longs and grieves for her. However, it is not only people that can be the focus of desire – one of the protagonists buries an Alfa Romeo Giulia in his garden.
Another thread that runs through these narratives, which have emerged over the course of twenty years, is coincidence and the arbitrariness of life, which can suddenly change everything from one moment to the next. In a language that is both sensual and analytical, Lukas Bärfuss tells the story of people who are torn out of their everyday routines. He traces the questions of how we encounter one other and the models on which we base the stories of our passions.