Dreams of Trains

Connecting, like the ancient psalm, sadness and light, the book of the recognized classic of modern American literature Denis Johnson (1949-2017) tells the story of Robert Grainer, the hermit is involuntarily, whose life, covering almost two thirds of the twentieth century, passed among the hills, rivers and railway the ways of Northern Aidaho. This is a story about the world in which, despite the overwhelming suffering, the supra -worldly beauty breaks through: to comprehend, capture, express it with words to the main character - it can only be indicated by someone free from thoughts and memories, from anxieties, from anxiety And hopes, from speech, from the language itself. So there could be a dream that took a train - if trains could see dreams. In 2012, the book "Dreams of Trains" became the finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature