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Anna Felder, La disdetta: There is no english translation of this title. to read the italian version of the reading tip.
Reading tip
Dorothee Elmiger, Schlafgänger: «Sleepwalkers» is unusual in its approach, reading more as a collage of voices; narratives interweaving, interrupting and overlapping one another. Quite what is being discusses is at times oblique, but seems to have an underlying political urgency and circles around themes of borders and frontiers: stories of immigrants and of those trying to cross borders illegally, human rights and the market value of human beings. Sleep and sleeplessness are leitmotifs. Two words important to the narrative are ambiguous. Schlafgänger means 'sleepwalker', but also refers to the large numbers swarming to urban centers in search of work and an escape from poverty in the nineteenth century; and Grenzgänger indicates both ghostly figures who 'reside' close to borders, hoping to find a way across, and those who legally cross to their home or workplace. Disturbing, bewildering, and with a soundscape that has a poetic beat that buzzes in the head, this highly unusual short work is a courageous contribution to the immigration debate and a striking work of literary fiction. (Source: New Books in German, issue 36 / 2014)
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Dorothee Elmiger, Invitation to the Bold of Heart: Born in 1985, Dorothee Elmiger makes a fascinatingly fearless debut as a novelist. «Einladung an die Waghalsigen» (Invitation to the Bold of Heart) explores paths that lie far away from the mainstream and develops a poetic pertinacity. Margarete Stein is sitting at her kitchen table reading – and reading. She lives right above the police station which is headed by her father who is a police commander. The mother ran away long ago. She reads and her sister Fritzi wanders about the area. Together they search for a mysterious river called Buenaventura. In an attempt to write a chronicle the sisters jot down everything they observe, explore, hope, wish for. In her «novel» Dorothee Elmiger does not arrange all these explorations into a closed frame, rather, she presents them in the form of singular particles and fragments that oscillate between close observation, inner perception and read up quotations. There is a certain unrest spinning inside her text, an unrest that reflects the quest for one’s own wishes and for a purpose in life. Elmiger’s poetic novel is like a intensely smouldering fire that cannot be controlled. Its musical and linguistic structure reveals a certain obstinacy and poetic audacity. All this makes the book a surprising debut and an invitation to curiosity. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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