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Reading tip
Bruno Steiger, Zwischen Unorten: 59 texts from 15 years – reviews, portraits and reports – offer us an insight into the literary and art critic body of work of an author who regularly appears in public as an essayist and critic. The texts turn around 56 authors of contemporary art and literature, all nicely listed in the index at the end of the volume as well as in the table of contents. This makes for a little encyclopaedia of radical modernism and post-modernism in which subjective as well as very well researched and precisely documented articles balance each other. The entries range from Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) all the way to Christian Zehnder (born 1983). Adorno’s dictum about the «Verfransung der Demarkationen» (the disintegration of disciplinary demarcations) in art is quoted twice and shows us what Steiger means by the iridescent notion of non-places: the trans-disciplinary essential interest in literature and art that begins beneath the entanglement of the designers of terms and which explores the art of living as art of reading. (Daniel Rothenbühler, trans. by Anja Hälg)
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Lisa Elsässer, Feuer ist eine seltsame Sache: «Fire is a strange thing» - was written on a piece of paper left by a man on a woman’s kitchen table. And because it wasn’t just any woman, but of all people his wife’s friend, the charged atmosphere this creates could soon become dangerous. It develops into a love affair…but not a simple one: «After that night, we parted at a traffic lights; it was early morning and they were just flashing on amber. Red or green would have only one meaning, I said. He laid his finger against my lips.»
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Mariella Mehr, Daskind: Thechild does not have a name nor does it have any rights. It lives with its foster parents. It is regularly punished by its foster father, sexually abused by their lodger, and reprimandes by the spinsterly sour moral of its foster mother. Whoever abuses it does not risk a thing – but the offenders aren’t getting any pleasure out of it either. Mariella Mehr’s novel – the first part of a trilogy – describes the unhappy life of an adopted child in a community of people who are themselves marginalised. The borders between good and evil, right and wrong are dissolved. Thechild is a regrettable victim which is tortured and despised and silently suffers through all the assaults – but it know how to defend itself, because: “When we are grown up, Thechild says to itself, we are going to kill one of them.” In an impressive and depressing way the novel describes an atmosphere of stupid dullness, hypocrisy and aggression that turns everyone into victims and perpetrators, it is hopeless. The author has found an impulsive, expressive language for this misery. Harsh, dry, and provocatively direct and often falling into a grammatical stutter she gives voice, above all, to the distraught and silent child. She intensifies in order to grasp reality. Mariella Mehr herself comes from a family of vagrant peoples which was separated in the 1950s in the context of the campaign "Kinder der Landstrasse". (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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