Mad About A Mad Dream - Biography of a Woman (vol. III)
Literary Fiction, Fiction
The memory of a love can be more intense than the love itself
Far from home, a woman meets a man, a Catalan and writer, and has an affair. This love shakes up her whole life – not only the relationship with her husband, but also her view of things, her work. What she experiences allows her to make a decision that involves risks: to be completely alone and live as a writer in the future. But can someone who is completely alone still be with other people? With a husband, with children? Years later, she’s at another transition point in her life and she meets the Catalan again: An arc closes between the past and the present. Julia Schoch crowns her extraordinary trilogy with this novel about a momentous encounter.
Julia Schoch born in 1974, works as a freelance author and translator of French in Potsdam. She received countless nominations and awards for both her writing and her translation. Her novel ‘Das Vorkommnis’ (‘The Incident’) was awarded with the Schubart-Literaturpreis in 2023. She received the 2022 German Schiller Foundation Award for her literary works.
The memory of a love can be more intense than the love itself
Far from home, a woman meets a man, a Catalan and writer, and has an affair. This love shakes up her whole life – not only the relationship with her husband, but also her view of things, her work. What she experiences allows her to make a decision that involves risks: to be completely alone and live as a writer in the future. But can someone who is completely alone still be with other people? With a husband, with children? Years later, she’s at another transition point in her life and she meets the Catalan again: An arc closes between the past and the present. Julia Schoch crowns her extraordinary trilogy with this novel about a momentous encounter.