Planet Literature

Dream Worlds

Next week, we will take off on a new literary journey on Planet Literature. With texts by Zacharias Mbizo we will travel to the land of dreams. To get you in the mood, today we are presenting volume 1 of his Dream worlds.

At first glance, the language of dreams seems enigmatic to us. However, if we are willing to engage with their peculiar logic, they can help us to see things more clearly. This is all the more true when our dreams are a mirror of our own abysses.

About Zacharias Mbizo:

Zacharias Mbizo, who has been publishing literature since 2015, is part of the „Ecartist“ circle of authors around the blogger Rother Baron. Following the novella Luckless Homecoming – The Dead Man Who Solved the Murder of Himself and the fantastical story The Agnes Well, he has published several books of literary miniatures with LiteraturPlanet. The Literary Corona Diary was followed in 2022 by the texts on the Ukrainian Apocalypse.

Nocturnal Call is the author’s second volume of „dream worlds„ after The Hidden Chamber. Like the texts in the Literary Corona Diary and the Ukrainian Apocalypse, the Dream Worlds are also written in the style of „literary miniatures“. As such, the author describes „texts that are located between short story, literary reflection and poem“. The frequently used „you“ form in these texts is for him „a way of creating greater intimacy – to empathise with the characters, to put oneself in their shoes“.

A brief introduction to the logic of dreams and their traces in literature can be found in the foreword to volume 1 of Dream Worlds (The Hidden Chamber).

Picture: Johann Heinrich Füssli (Henry Fuseli, 1741 – 1825): The Shepherd’s Dream (1793); Tate Britain (Tate Gal­lery), London