Lapvona

Perhaps, the genre of lithostrophy also tends to create such village searching for the Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh who described very distastefully medieval-like village with corruption, physical violence and insanity. It is actually an illustrated story of a kid named Marek who has to grow into this cruel world of power, trickery and deceit. The strategies with which Moshfegh appears to have constructed her persona – the exploration of human essence, of pain – produce an honestly horrifying, profoundly thoughtful way of living for the sheer grimness of it.