Seventy pictures, seventy stories, seventy literary masterpieces
Here is a man who visualizes his life in snapshots, skimming over continents and times in a narrative way and expressing the fleeting nature of the moment, sometimes ironically, but always with passion and virtuosity.
In memory of the classic photo album, in which the adventures of the moment were documented in keywords under often blurred images, Christoph Ransmayr tells seventy stories condensed into micro-novels about seventy of his photographs in black and white. Each photo is a visual note, due to the randomness of presence and recorded in passing with a smartphone or digital camera. Each text accompanying the image becomes a self-contained, polished piece of prose: a micro-novel. Because expeditions into the moments of reality and the boundlessness of the imagination can be told in just a few lines - especially when it is done with the powers of observation and the art of formulation of the worldly-wise Christoph Ransmayr.
"Christoph Ransmayr is curious about the world and has the language to make this curiosity contagious in texts of mesmerizing beauty." Denis Scheck, Druckfrisch
