Eight short stories with Nicolas Bokov’s characteristic tone and form: poetic simplicity, nostalgia for the past, coincidental encounters, attention concentrated on physical and moral poverty make up the thread of a perpetual interrogation leading to… these response zones.
A child in the Russian countryside, prey to a strange terror…A young man interned in a Siberian hospital, dreaming of love and liberty…A father recognizing in his daughter’s infirmity the counterpart to his own moral suffering…A homeless man saved by an inner voice…A pilgrim in Athens expecting a ticket to the Holy Land to be granted to him through divine intervention…
A life lead partly on footpaths and in the street, haunted by an undefined presence and the proximity of death… that is what inspired these eight stories.