Beast. Linda Arāja.

pārkāpj likumu un pakļauj sevi gan seksuālai izmantošanai, gan morālai un fiziskai vardarbībai. Tā ir upura un varmākas spēle, kas aktualizē jautājumu, vai upuris nes atbildību par sevi? Vai aiz katra varmākas reiz bijis upuris, bet aiz katra upura potenciālais varmāka? Bet galvenokārt Lauma liek uzdot jautājumu – vai pēc piedzīvotas vardarbības vēl ir iespējama dzīve? Un kāpēc cilvēks pieļauj vardarbību?

Kā pati Lauma saka, reizēm šķiet, ka mazas un nevainīgas izvēles iesāk nepareizo izvēļu kopumu, kuru pārtraukšana ir pielīdzināma izskriešanai priekšā braucošam vilcienam.
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The novel is a journey through the memories of nineteen/twenty-year-old Lauma's life. After meeting a guy named Zvērs, the girl decides to record her experiences in writing, extracting from herself a tangle of memories that forms as a stream of consciousness. Zvērs is Lauma's great love, but this love leads to self-destruction. The girl subjects herself to manipulative relationships with a narcissist, falls into drug addiction, engages in various questionable deals, breaks the law, and exposes herself to both sexual exploitation and moral and physical violence. It is a game of victim and perpetrator that raises the question of whether the victim bears responsibility for themselves. Has every perpetrator once been a victim, and is there a potential perpetrator behind every victim? But most importantly, Lauma prompts the question - is life still possible after experiencing violence? And why does a person allow violence?

As Lauma herself says, sometimes it seems that small and innocent choices begin a set of wrong choices, whose interruption is akin to running in front of an oncoming train.
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