Stable of sorrow

Sibyl von der Schulenburg is a European author who grew up in a multilingual and multicultural environment. After a debut in writing essays, she is now dedicated to stories of people living in psychic conflict. Her writing is dry, the pacing is tight, the construction of sentences simple, the use of adjectives and adverbs is limited; frequent is the use of objective correlative. The author’s ambition is to transport the reader into the scene and let the characters speak for themselves. The descriptions of places and people in her novels reveal the influence of different literary styles: from Italian Romanticism to German Expressionism, crystallized in a personal style.