In Ivresse (Rausch), Falk Richter explores the contemporary psyche: fears, ambitions, and emotional states. It feels as though we’ve reached the end of a world and can only keep moving forward. And yet, uncontrollable forces seem to shape the fate of individuals in our time: Ivresse reflects the battle the postmodern human wages against the images, sounds, and shadows surrounding them. Where can hope be found, and how can our relationship to others be reintegrated into this new reality?

Play Loud is a collage of fragmented stories—possible lives of men and women, parents and children, couples and families, of their closeness and alienation, their dreams and memories: like a miniature society from which emerges a world of lives shaken by the crises and upheavals of the neoliberal era. This time, Falk Richter focuses his inquiry on the uncertainties of love, as if aiming—humorously—to offer an anatomy of feelings at the start of the 21st century. These crises might be a point of departure or a question: where do I stand in this life, and how can I tell its story?

Language: French

From the German by Anne Monfort

L’Arche
ISBN: 2851817973
156 pages, paperback