• Publisher: Beletrina
• 212 pages
• Author: Ana Marwan
• Original title: Zabubljena

Rita is developing slowly and is not sure into what. Carefully, she observes her social environment, where she is trying to find her place. Her gaze comes to rest on Mr Jež, who she thinks might be of help to her. She ob- serves and dissects him. What she doesn’t see in real life, she fills in with her imagination, but it soon becomes hard to separate the two. At first, Jež re- sists her vivisection, but slowly it comes to suit him more and more, thinks Rita. Writing about Jež is a task that she completes conscientiously. Who has given her this task remains unclear for quite some time, as does the ques- tion of whether she is employed at the institution where she observes Jež, or a patient there. Ministry departments change into hospital wards and back again. Like Rita herself they lack a clear out- line, a visible meaning. But Rita’s eye is sharp and clear when she casts it on the world, on the people around her and the connections between them, which become increasingly inter- woven and eventually unravel.

About the author

Ana Marwan

After studying Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Ana Marwan (1980) moved to Vienna in 2005, where she won the Schreiben zwischen den Kulturen (Writing between cultures) literary prize in 2008. In recent years, she has devoted herself entirely to writing short stories, novels and poetry in German

and Slovenian. Her debut novel Der Kreis des Weberknechts was published by Otto Müller Verlag in 2019. Cocooned (Zabubljena) is her second novel but her first written in Slovenian.