When stacked the world starts to fall apart like a house of cards, and on the straight path, yet more and more obstacles grows, the main character in "Small follies" Kai Malanowski, collapses into itself more and more.
Diagnosis: Depression
Treatment: -depth psychoanalysis of his status combined with a critical attitude towards one another. Fighting disintegrating world, having a fight to save the remnants of the old life, at the end of the fight against unreal reality.
This book addresses the problems of depression, which is often trivializes. Although the main focus was the author poses the problem of the disease, which had taken effect the main character, and began podług organize their principles, Malanowska hid in the "Small follies" something else. Namely, in-depth analysis of today's world, created from the fantasies that instills in people the illusion of truth. The space in which exists Maja is subjected to deconstruction, thus revealing its true essence. Malanowska seems to diagnose modernity as a product of feeding on old ideals, firmly stereotypizowany, while leaving the choice of the unit, which came with the deal. So we have an alternative, or take pills, and thus flooding the unreality and adoption patterns of life regarded as normal or crazy, negative state of normalcy. Are you sure? Indeed, in his madness of May seems to strip the world with the mantle of illusion.
This novel, highly recommendable to all those who look suspicious eye on contemporary culture and do not entrust it to the full. Also, for those who, from the literature require more than just a collision with issues affecting reality. accept "minor follies" is both a rejection pills, and thus a chance for discovery of normality, which will not be conditioned by the demands of the modern world.
