Katarína Varsiková

Príbehy

Svet stvorený zo slov a ríša, ktorá sa začína za hranicou slov.
Dve mestá – Bratislava a Brusel. A doma je v skutočnosti miesto, ktoré nie je na žiadnej mape.

Don´t pay the ferryman… before he...

The title is a reference to a classic song. The photo courtesy to one of the weekend participants. 🙂 Waulsort. Waha. Ohain. Some of the toponyms in Wallonia sound so ancient and soft as if they came from a fantasy book by Ursula LeGuin...

When the bees sting

photo Danube beach in the area of Devin Bratislava. Several encounters with old friends I have not seen for decades; exchanging life stories. I probably won’t surprise you saying it is a lot of juicy-story material: separations, love...

Soľná a škoricová

„Čo ak sa ten strop preborí, a zomrieme?“ Pomyslí si, polohovateľné sedadlo vo vodorovnej polohe, a vzápätí si povie, „Veď som tu s K, tak no a čo? Zomrieme spolu.“ Strop je zo sadry a pripomína kvaple, všetko...

Paradox a rovnováha

„Nemusíš robiť všetko sama,“ hovorí pokojným a pevným hlasom. Moja nová spolupracovníčka. Spoločne sme pripravili prezentáciu knihy. Volá sa Katarína a popularita tohto mena na Slovensku naprieč generáciami je pre mňa...

A Bar of Lavender Soap

A bar of lavender soap lies beside the wash basin. Each morning, when I come to the bathroom that is not mine, for a glimpse of a second, I mistake it for a mobile phone. Similar shape, and smartphones have become so omnipresent, so...

The Third One

„They can let you our of jail now, because they have put the jail inside your mind.“ Starhawk. Mocking other people was a pattern that ran in our family. Whatever could serve as a pretext to scorn: Hungarian accent in Slovak...