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Eugen Gomringer, vom vers zur konstellation: Abstract poetry can be achieved in most diverse ways. Herein, however, also lies the dilemma: how can it be plausibly understood? Eugen Gomringer already reacted to this dilemma when he began to conceive his first concrete poems. His manifesto «From Line to Constellation – Purpose and Form of a New Poetry» was first published in 1954, with revised editions to follow. In his work, he ascribes concrete poetry to the contemporary requirements of technological-scientific progress and the needs of modern society. According to Gomringer, present-day people want communication to be fast. Catchphrase and headline coined his everyday life right down to its visual aspects. And such concision and memorability demanded, similarly to concrete art, a new visual and graphic form of expression, he says. The resulting small print, typography and economic use of words were therefore far more suitable than free verse. The «new poem» should be «simple» and could be perceived «visually as a whole as well as in its parts. It becomes an object (...) its concern is with brevity and consciousness.» Accordingly and most likely, it was to be realised with the term «constellation», coined by the French poet (1842–1898). The constellation, so Gomringer, as a shaped word order as well as playful force field allowed for innumerable linguistic combinations and variations. Concrete poetry «constitutes a reality in itself and not a poem about something or other.» (Severin Perrig, trans. by Simon Froehling)
Matthias Zschokke, Der Mann mit den zwei Augen: He has two eyes and a nose: that's about all the main character reveals about himself in Matthias Zschokke's novel. He seems unremarkable, but still it's impossible to overlook him. "I will be wearing a coat, sand-coloured, and in my left hand I will probably be holding a small, sandy-coloured suitcase. I am of average height, have averagelength sand-coloured hair, and on my right will be a woman, about a head shorter than me, and whom you might as well picture as sandy-coloured too. We can't miss each other." Although he works as a court reporter, the man with two eyes has a strong aversion to anything unusual. He clearly prefers things to be normal and ordinary – and it is in that very ordinariness that he discovers the unusual, the beautiful, the sad, and the comical. He finds it everywhere: in a café or on the street, whether he is meeting strangers or acquaintances, whether he is on the move or at home with his wife, whom he met and fell in love with years ago at choir practice. Funny or tragic? What may at first seem banal, on closer inspection reveals hidden depths of meaning. Both Matthias Zschokke's novel and his protagonist inhabit the two extremes. In his writing, Zschokke is a master of the twists and turns, placing events and characters under a bright light in which they lose their familiarity and become extraordinary.
Dana Grigorcea, Baba Rada: Time has stood still beneath the dwarf nut tree. Baba Rada reads an evil fate in the cards, while dead Antim crawls into a tree hollow, Ileana becomes engaged and the old red beard finally buries his head in the reeds. In her debut novel, “Baba Rada”, Dana Grigorcea allows her characters to act in a narrative space whose horizons fade away in the glittering summer light or icy cold. In the Romanian Danube Delta, the setting for her book, a hidden world seems to be a law unto itself. In the small village, hale and hearty Baba Rada keeps her family together. She grants her wish for an albino daughter with Mirabelle schnapps and magic. But a mysterious terrorist plunges everything into chaos. Dana Grigorcea’s novel is a veritable rogues gallery that is difficult to grasp and constantly reveals new stories. The “magnificent barbarism” is presented as a wild blend of fairy stories, rumours, villainy and miserable bawdiness that only appreciates good fortune in the world through legends. Life is at a standstill on the Danube island. The inhabitants have bad teeth; anyone who can escapes from here at once. But those who stay behind do not lose their will and sense of humour and sing defiant songs like “Das Leben ist vergänglich wie die Kopfhaare” (“Life is as fleeting as the hairs on the head”). Dana Grigorcea’s idiosyncratic signature makes this book an event. She was raised bilingually in Romania and now lives in Zurich. The author succeeds in creating a ghostly prose that drenches everything in a fantastic twilight and only attains schematic contours by virtue of the language. The long titles, which are reminiscent of Baroque literature, enable her to create a resonant narrative space as she continually weaves a convoluted and obscure plot. This is precisely how “Baba Rada” gains a peculiar graphic quality coupling Burlesque comedy with ghostly precision and a hint of tragedy. The bawdy stories emerge from all of this like Baba Rada’s belching “whenever I have drunk this Russian, alcoholic shampoo”. (Beat Mazenauer)
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