Haus der Ruhe

My four walls opened up to the whole world. Thus, the narrator's room in the House of Rest becomes her final viewpoint into the world, from which she reflects on events and occurrences: the love story between her grandson and his caregiver, the staff's decision for revolution or dictatorship, the captain who invites her on a sea voyage, a singer who once had a great name, her stuffed parrot, her unreliable daughter Ada, and the director who is worse than sick. With her usual stylistic precision, Eleonore Frey breaks conventional meanings, allowing ambivalences to emerge where clarity once reigned, only to swiftly transition them into another, new clarity. In the rare tone of ironic melancholy, she tells the story of a world that has no future left on Earth.