Mere Chances Selected Stories
Mere Chances Selected Stories by Veronika Simoniti, published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2018, is a collection of 157 pages that showcases the author’s unique storytelling style. This edition features a translation of Simoniti’s work, highlighting her role as a linguistic experimentalist. The stories delve into the lives of characters who navigate the complexities of identity while crossing both physical and linguistic borders.
Readers will encounter a range of singular and strange narratives that explore themes of communication and the challenges of maintaining one’s identity. The characters in these stories grapple with the nuances of language, often finding themselves in situations where they must use codes that are not their own or face the loss of language altogether. Through these experiences, Simoniti illustrates the intricate relationship between language and self-identity, emphasizing its role as both a fundamental and often unreliable tool in the human experience.
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Mere Chances collects some of Veronika Simoniti’s most singular and strange stories. A linguistic experimentalist in the tradition of Julio Cortazar, Simoniti populates her tales with homeless and nomadic characters struggling to fashion or to maintain their identities as they cross physical and linguistic borders. Whether compelled to communicate in codes not their own or grappling with the loss of language itself, her characters’ struggles to forge stable identities point to the way human language, while fundamental to the formation of the self, is often an unreliable and imperfect tool.
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