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Robert Walser (Text), Käthi Bhend (Ill.), Einer, der nichts merkte: The yarn of Robert Walser’s ultra-short stories is spun from everyday life and woven effortlessly together, as if by a child. The tapestries tell of the fragility of life and yet report on real odds and ends. Käthi Bhend captures these aspects wonderfully in her illustrations of the stories of a certain Mister Binggeli – a man who stopped taking notice of anything because he «couldn’t care less.» He was simply «thoughtless and empty,» so that he didn’t even notice how he lost his own head.
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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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Klaus Merz, Jakob schläft: Jakob died at birth. He has been at rest in heaven since then and watches over the family. Meanwhile, down below, stories from the family album are played out. A new gadget is being worshipped in the best parlour next to the bakery – the Grundig radio. During quieter moments, the radio broadcasts news from foreign countries. That’s why Uncle Franz cannot stand it at home and prefers to ride through the village on his Harley, while during the afternoon in the rural cinema Gary Cooper stands alone against the world. With subtle irony, Merz evokes the fifties and the family’s daily routine in brief, precise descriptions. 75 pages do not make this a long book, but its brevity certainly does justice to the whimsical subtitle, “Eigentlich ein Roman” (“A Novel, Actually”). Klaus Merz, a master of short, condensed and clipped prose also adheres to his programme of linguistic concentration, while occasionally, admittedly, the anecdotal narrative helps him to achieve longer, almost epic phraseology. For this reason, this “micro-novel” diverges from the mysterious simplicity and lucidity of his other poetic work. Merz largely foregoes the subtle, irritating network of allusions, aspersions and omissions. Nor can he dispense here with a distinct lack of literary arrogance. Merz recounts scenes from his childhood during the 1950s in Wynental in Aargau. The accounts are not real, even though they seem so. Merz’s autobiographical narrative is filtered and he invents a literary ego for his book: Lukas Renz (almost an anagram of Merz). This alter ego reminds us of those episodes, which documented familiar ruptures in Merz’s earlier narratives, such as “Report”, “Im Schläfengebiet” or “Querfahrt”. Embedded in his wonderfully simple prose there are repeated flashes of enchanting sentences and finely modulated word pictures. At first, they appear “lost”, but upon closer inspection they reveal precise descriptive qualities. Having returned from the cinema on Sunday, (“High Noon”), father prepares the starter dough in the bakery and mother “brushed the ricochets out of my hair”. Such phrases observe “what is not visible through demonstration”. (Beat Mazenauer)
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Hansjürg Buchmeier (Hrsg.): DEON Architekten. Bauten und Projekte 2000-2025. Park Books.
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