Literatur-Blog für alle, die keine Angst vor heftigen Mischungen haben. Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf treffen auf Simone de Beauvoir, Star Trek, Philosophie, Science und mehr
Lord of the Flies is one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. It was certainly disturbing when I read it the first time and it still is. With a group of innocent schoolboys who are stranded on an island, the author portrays very realistically human behavior in an environment where civilization no longer... Continue Reading →
The story feels like a very reduced film script which I think is very typical of her novels. There is a subtle subdued bleakness and very little that could be described as a plot. It takes some time to find your way around the get an idea of the characters and what is really going... Continue Reading →
I met Eliot Weinberger at the International Literature Festival in Berlin 2 or was it 3 years ago, not really knowing him then. I had wandered into a reading, waiting for some other event to start and was mesmerized by his reading of "The Ghosts of Birds". Afterwards we ended up chatting for a bit,... Continue Reading →
"I was finally doing something that really mattered. Sleep felt productive. Something was getting sorted out. I knew in my heart—this was, perhaps, the only thing my heart knew back then—that when I’d slept enough, I’d be okay. I’d be renewed, reborn. I would be a whole new person, every one of my cells regenerated... Continue Reading →
Jenny Erpenbeck's powerful novel "Gehen, Ging, Gegangen / Go, Went, Gone" is one of the most moving and clearsighted books I read this year. Richard a former classics professor in the east part of Berlin is getting used to his new routine as a pensioner. He has a big house with an even bigger garden... Continue Reading →
Gerda, an old lady living in an old peoples home, is looking out at the stars. She is considering wether she had a happy life or not. While she tries to master living in her final new home, she remembers her youth in the 1960s, her excitement for astrophysics an area that was pretty much... Continue Reading →
It's this time of the year again and I'm introducing a book a day that caught my interest. You will find old and new, obscure and mainstream titles next to each other so hopefully an interesting mix. I would like to start today with a book I had picked from the shelves for the wonderful... Continue Reading →
Die Autorin, Dichterin und Garten-Designerin Vita Sackville-West wurde am Bekannstesten durch ihre Affäre und langjährige Freundschaft mit Virginia Woolf, die ihr wiederum mit dem Roman "Orlando" ein einmaliges literarisches Denkmal setzte. Die Geschichte von Vitas Ehe mit Harold Nicolson ist eine Mischung aus Faszination und Fassungslosigkeit. In "Porträt einer Ehe" kombiniert Vitas Sohn Nigel die... Continue Reading →
Im Jahr 1950 begibt sich ein junger Arzt namens Norton Perina mit dem Anthropologen Paul Tallent während einer Expedition auf einer entlegenen mikronesischen Insel namens Ivu'ivu auf der Suche nach einem geheimnisvollen Stamm. Sie finden nicht nur den besagten Stamm, sondern auch noch eine Gruppe mysteriöser Waldbewohner, die die "Träumer" genannt werden. Es stellt sich... Continue Reading →
In Rückblenden erzählt Sonja M. Schultz die Lebensgeschichte von Hawk. Der floh in den 1950er Jahren vor seinem gewalttäigen Vater aus Süddeutschland nach Hamburg. Er kommt in einem Seemannsheim unter, wo ihn der Besitzer unter die Fittiche nimmt und ihm einen Job im Hafen besorgt. Doch Hawk fühlt sich vom fürsorglichen Ersatzvater gegängelt, der alles... Continue Reading →
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