Literature

The restorer Laura Noves travels from Vienna to Pisa to work on the fresco Trionfo della Morte. The novel follows the structure of Petrarch's Trionfi – love, loss, transience – and interweaves the fresco's historical sources with the sediments of a female genealogy that eludes remembrance. The family history reveals itself only in fault lines, gaps and contradictions. What cannot be reconstructed becomes the actual statement – the void as a bearer of meaning.

An excerpt appeared in the yearbook of the Austrian Writers' Association 2024/25.

“her fingers glided over the page, feeling the raised dots and the hollows, trying to comprehend. she was armed with a fingertip that foresaw, that grasped in advance: she would live at the border of writing."

The story of two women drawing closer, born out of conversations with blind people. Writing as feeling one's way through the uncertain – an attempt to focus on hearing and touch, a searching movement that unfolds like reading Braille by hand.

The book connects different layers of hearing, reading and touching.

The live radio play can be accessed via a QR code included in the book.

Design: Janos Szurcsik

Realised as a live radio play with büro lunaire.

An attempt at poetic intensification in the form of footnotes. Remnants of landscape, particles of memory, moments in which consciousness detaches from the flow of events.

Language oscillates between what the author finds, researches or grasps through observation. A poetics of the fragment – as energetic states of tissue and matter.

“The texts resemble musical movements of language, describing in-between spaces and transitions …" (Birgit Pölzl)

A writing self that tries to erase itself, to make itself disappear – but only seemingly.