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Only the Narrative is True 2
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
In It's All True by Carmen Stephan the endless summer only lasts a moment. If only he hadn’t died … But Jacaré, the fisherman from north-eastern Brazil, disappears right at the beginning into the ...
Only the Narrative is True 1
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Fairy tales generally promise a ‘happy ever after’ ending, almost an ‘endless summer’. This is exactly what the title of Madame Nielsen’s novel hints at. However, as with all fairy tales the same ...
ELit Book-Tip: Alice Zeniter: “L’art de perdre – The Art of Losing”
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
“You lose what is not communicated; it’s as simple as that”, according to Alice Zeniter’s fifth novel L’art de perdre – The Art of Losing. However, the 31-year-old writer didn’t wish to make it quite ...
Family Affairs
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Families fuel literary inspiration like no other subject. Which youngster hasn’t come into conflict with parent’s values and expectations? Which couple has lived happily ever after without arguments? ...
Family Affairs 2: Ilinca Florian
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Families fuel literary inspiration like no other subject. Which youngster hasn’t come into conflict with parent’s values and expectations? Which couple has lived happily ever after without arguments? ...
Family Affairs 1: Marie-Jeanne Urech
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Families fuel literary inspiration like no other subject. Which youngster hasn’t come into conflict with parent’s values and expectations? Which couple has lived happily ever after without arguments? ...
ELit Book-Tip: David Lopez: FIEF
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
David Lopez’s suburban novel FIEF incorporates everything that this material calls for: boxers, rappers, plenty of drugs and a little Voltaire. This turns into a sensitive mixture that has hit a ...
THE POET AT THE CONFLUENCE OF CAPITAL
Posted by Saša Ilić | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Dies ist das zentrale Gedicht des Hauptzyklus (“Kapitalismus”) im neuesten Gedichtband von Petar Matović (*1978, Užice), der unter dem Titel Iz srećne republike (Aus der glücklichen Republik) vom ...
ELit Book-Tip: Simone Hirth: “Lied über die geeignete Stelle für eine Notunterkunft”
Posted by Markus Köhle | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
Simone Hirth’s debut novel “Lied über die geeignete Stelle für eine Notunterkunft” is a particularly eye-catching contribution
ELit Book Tip: Joachim Scherf: “Cette nuit”
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Tip, 2018
In January, when Joachim Schnerf published his novel “Cette nuit” – about Salomon, a Holocaust survivor, who must celebrate Jewish Passover for the first time without his late wife, Sarah – nobody ...