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Reading tip
Fabiano Alborghetti, Registro dei fragili. 43 canti: A news story is the starting point for this extraordinary collection of poems. A mother kills her own child. The photo in the paper shows a blonde woman with a provocative appearance in the grip of an obsession with youth and success. The poet becomes a chronicler in search of reality with all of its various levels and hidden compartments. In the previous book («L'opposta Riva», 2006) the author visited the underground world of immigrants. In «Registro dei fragili», he pursues the realities of supermarkets, gyms and the colourful illusions of a society corrupted by television. To give poetic expression to this disconcerting realm of the vulgar, Fabiano Alborghetti (*1970) adopts a subtly sophisticated metre. Stanzas of octosyllable verse snake the page circling rhythmic themes that hint at nursery rhymes, reaching lofty stylistic heights or fading out in terrestrial realms. Alborghetti punctuates his verse with internal rhymes and clinking alliterations, and infuses it with worn-out statements from the world of fashion and celebrity: «That was his job and his calling / to be a body, for exhibition, TV material.» (Pierre Lepori, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
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Rolf Lappert, Über den Winter: Lennard Salm, the protagonist of the new Rolf Lappert novel is a conceptual artist and committed social critic. He is searching the shoreline for washed-up objects when he makes a gruesome discovery. Tied to a boat is a dead child, the daughter of refugees who did not survive the crossing. This throws Salm into an existential crisis. Just then he hears his older sister has died and returns to wintry Hamburg, where he sees his family at the funeral. His father has become frail and blind, his younger sister Bille loses her job as an assistant producer and his younger brother Paul is ambitious but pallid and lacking in character. His emotionally-cold mother, who Salm privately calls the 'Norwegian queen', is deliberately avoiding him. Rolf Lappert's «Künstlerroman» paints a portrait of a crisis of identity and meaning, revealing Salm's domestic background and biography, which is shaped by unspoken recriminations and mutual accusations. The novel takes place in a wintry Germany that makes the coldness that characterizes this mother-son relationship almost physically palpable. In «Über den Winter», Rolf Lappert surprises readers with strong imagery and an eloquence that gets under the skin. A well-made novel (Rudolf Probst, trans. by Andrea Willfratt)
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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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