The Key / An Eochair Literary looking up at the night

looking up at the night sky

Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled with characters as complex and surprising as any in American short fiction

" —Stig Sæterbakken

grew up under a stifling dictatorship

it is a near-exhaustive catalog of the ramifications and effects of the act of suicide

The Key / An Eochair Literary looking up at the nightIn An Eochair (The Key), one of Mirtn Cadhains most Kafkaesque novella, J., a paper keeper, accidentally locks himself in his office when his key breaks in the lock. The novellaa mixture of satire, farce, black comedy, and, ultimately, tragedyrelates the efforts of J. and various other characters, including his wife, civil service colleagues, and superiors, as they try to extricate J. from his predicament. Yet all efforts to free J. must be in