About the book: 2020 / Clemens J. Zetz (b. 1982) - prose writer, poet, translator. A rising star of modern Austrian literature. Author of the novels "Sons and Planets" (2007), "Frequencies" (2009), "Indigo" (2012), "An Hour Between a Woman and a Guitar" (2015). In the collection of short stories “The Joy of Round Things” (2019), Clemens J. Setz explores themes of madness, loneliness, and the fragility of the human consciousness, yearning for joy and consolation. The familiar world appears strange and creepy on the pages of the book; darkness and emptiness are hidden behind the thin veil of “normality.” In the “Zetz universe”, whimsical, whimsical and frightening, the average person is in wait for talking animals, fantastic creatures and absurd situations, failed maniacs, and space and time itself reveals an unsteady, changeable nature. "The Joy of Round Things" is an example of sophisticated intellectual prose, referencing the works of Borges and Kafka.