Monologue in Black

The latest book by the best-selling author provides those with a taste for the devilish and the bizarre with an irresistibly wicked read.

Across 15 stories, published for the very first time, the virtuoso raconteur ventures a whimsical look at the all-too human and malicious twists and turns of evil. Showing how by praying you can bring death to troublesome individuals, open eggs with a screwdriver, or give your wife the fright of her life disguised as a ghostly apparition from the deep; such topics are all delivered in the same incisive, wicked manner spiked with black humor as his side swipes at modern art and the dehumanisation of our society. Once more Rosendorfer proves his skill as a brilliant raconteur and shrewd observer with an inexhaustible imagination.

Herbert Rosendorfer, born in 1934 in Gries, Bolzano, spent a year at the Academy of Fine Arts before going on to study law. Initially he worked as an attorney and magistrate in Munich, before being appointed a judge at the Regional Appeal Court in Naumburg, Hessia, where he remained until 1997. In 1990 he was appointed Professor of Bavarian Literary History, and, in the same year, was awarded the Jean-Paul Sartre Prize. In 2005 he was awarded the Literature Prize of the City of Munich. His »Letters Back to Ancient China« brought him public acclaim with over 2 million copies sold to date.