Vulcan is a novel of multiple storylines coming together to build an image of Bulgaria’s surrealist and fantastic present, from within and from without. Ultimately, it is also a dream seen by Klaus Schimmelhoff, a demented former pop-art celebrity with Alzheimer, now mostly forgotten and living in his penthouse studio with his Bulgarian nurse Magda. Magda’s daughter, suffering from a bizzare fantastic disease, encounters an elderly businessman whose latest ambition is to produce green energy out of cow dung. That’s how it all starts to develop into a sadly ironic and humoristic tale, depicting contemporary society and all absurd dimensions of the human existence.
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