The sweepstakes of love
Subtitle: stories
By: Toomas Vint ; translated by Matthew Hyde
Contributors: Hyde, Matthew Cavender, 1972- translator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781564789471
Subjects: Painters; Translations into English; Estonian Authors; Biography; Fiction
Work titles: Prose works
Description: "In this collection which contains both autobiography and fiction, the prominent Estonian artist and writer Toomas Vint, whose career spans the Soviet period and Estonia's re-gaining of independence, demonstrates his characteristic mischievous, dark sense of humour, an artist's eye for visual detail, and an experimental approach to form. His main themes are the fine dividing line between fantasy and reality, man's foibles, frailties and capacity for self-deception, and the absurd and sometimes tragicomic nature of the human condition"--
Notes: Translations from Estonian of selected stories never before published in English.
Table of contents: title: An artist's life --; title: That wonderful hairy beast called fib --; title: We are children of Lenin, we are children of Stalin --; title: Early-spring orange --; title: A bunch of forget-me-nots --; title: The theatre minister awakes --; title: The time we went to Salvador Dali's funeral --; title: Car story -- ; title: A landscape demarcated by a sign --; title: Balcony --; title: An artist's life --; title: An exhibition in Paris, atontparnasse --; title: A flock of delusions --; title: Pedigree male, free to a good home --; title: A dog's life --; title: Sweepstakes of love --; title: A view of a train which is late --; title: Those ordinary things which we can't get used to --; title: Mysterious victim's identity now known --; title: Story with a happy ending --; title: The beginning of the end --; title: Somebody's classmate --; title: Life as material for quite a sad novel --; title: The curse of late love --; title: Life shrouded in a fog of unreality --; title: Take this waltz --; title: A flock of delusions --; title: Blood-red water, hazy sky --; title: An inordinately, unimaginably large bird.