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Urs Widmer, Reise an den Rand des Universums: «No author in his right mind writes an autobiography». Against the fear that this would be the end of one’s material it helps to know that a narration of one’s life always invents a life from memories. Urs Widmer proves this in a playfully ironic and at the same time melancholic recount of his youth during which almost everything happens to him by sheer luck or misfortune. Satirising the species he starts with his conception which he invents with the same relish he describes his path to literature: all the way from being a toddler and hearing the clattering of his father’s typewriter to the moment in which his own typewriter starts writing on its own. (Swiss Literature Jury, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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Ruth Schweikert, Augen zu: To really appreciate Ruth Schweikert's novel, it needs to be read from beginning to end - and that is no exaggeration. The first sentences unleash a stylistic furioso. Under the heading «Vorausgesetzt» (Given that..) a woman's life is set down on one and a half pages in a few striking lines as the despairing search for «verboten viel Glück» (a forbidden amount of happiness) is inevitably swallowed up by the cursed machinery of everyday life. «Augen zu» is a mature, powerfully written novel. Woven into a complex narrative structure are the stories of single mothers, fatherless children and relationships that break down under the weight of expectations and lost illusions. Two unsettled souls cross paths. Journalist Raoul with his Jewish roots and Aleks from a suffocatingly normal background from which he has been trying to free himself his whole life, «ohne irgendwo eine Spur zu hinterlassen» (without leaving any trace). At first glance, there is no logic to Schweikert's novel. People and events seem to pop up at random. In spite of this fragility, the novel has a coherence that comes from a finely balanced inner logic. Turning thirty, Alex mulls over the blows love has dealt him with a bitter irony. In this novel full of bitter and sometimes ironic undertones, Schweikert defiantly allows herself a positive note of confidence only at the end, hinting that love is not only about disappointment and bad blood. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Andreas Mason)
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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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