The installation of fear
2012. 1st Edition.
Two men knock at the door.
“Good morning, madam, we’ve come to install fear. And, you’ll see, it’s a category.”
“Rui Zink’s text, a more than recommended read for these times, is overwhelming in the way it places us, at times almost ridiculously, before the way we have accepted the mechanics of constructing fear. The “fear installer” appears at home like any TV or telecommunications technician who is going to install a widespread service. It is disconcerting, but it is the perfect portrait of what we are.”
Paulo Mendes Pinto, Visão
“Unmasking the ideological structure that surrounds us – and not many people can do it like he does – Rui Zink has managed a magnificent text.”
Irmtraud Gutschke, Neues Deutschland
“Dry, raw, the book takes a risk on the formula and is effective in its effect. In the same breath of writing, the reader enters the spiral constructed by Rui Zink, feels the discomfort, feels like a victim.”
Isabel Lucas, Público
Rui Zink, born in Lisbon in 1961, is one of the most singular voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. Writer, teacher, and intellectual provocateur, he has built a body of work marked by irony, social criticism, and the rare ability to transform the everyday into revealing absurdity.
In books such as O Destino Turístico, A Instalação do medo, or Hotel Lusitano, he explores the tension between fantasy and reality: humor as an acute form of thought.
