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Kathrin Schärer, Johanna im Zug: We are sitting alongside the artist at her worktable. In front of us lie coloured pencils, brushes, scissors, Max Frisch’s «Biography: A Game» and a nearly empty sheet of paper. A railway locomotive and two wagons have been outlined. «I’m drawing a long train, a train with lots of wagons. Does that make a story yet?», she asks. Yes, a beginning, certainly. Then the train’s passengers are introduced – a goat, a dog, a cow and a small pig: Johanna. Johanna intervenes in the story, prevents the small polar bear (is it Hans de Beer’s Lars ?) from getting into the wrong train. She asks for company and makes the acquaintance of a wolf, a fierce monster. Eventually she begins to banter with Jonathan, a pig from another train. Which should do, right? The two pigs pull the piece of paper from the artist’s hand and release her to work on the next story...
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Michelle Steinbeck, Mein Vater war ein Mann an Land und im Wasser ein Walfisch: A young woman goes on a perilous journey in search of her absent father. What ensues is a Freudian adult fairytale in this exciting debut by young Swiss author Michelle Steinbeck. A child attacks Loribeth with an iron while she is sleeping. In retaliation Loribeth throws the iron onto the child from an upstairs window, packs the damaged body into a suitcase and sets off on her travels. Thus starts Michelle Steinbeck’s unusual, poetic novella about a young woman’s transition from childhood to adulthood. Loribeth and her suitcase begin an odyssey through a variety of nightmarish locations such as the violent and foul-smelling red town, and a ship traversing a turbulent sea. On her journey she encounters various characters and has to choose between two men. She picks Fridolin and moves into a rotting house on a cliff edge with him and his sister Mabel. But when Loribeth finally reunites with her father, he questions her choice of domestic happiness. Does she really want to spend her life with Fridolin before she has seen more of the world? After this encounter, Loribeth perceives her life as nothing but a deadening routine. Escape seems to be the only way out. But the sleeping pills she takes in a suicide attempt have no effect, and in the end Loribeth steals Fridolin’s car and takes off into the night on another journey. In this fantastical novella, Steinbeck depicts her protagonist’s unsettled state of mind in poetic and energetic prose. The disturbing people and places Loribeth encounters in search of her father convey her sense of dislocation in and alienation from the world at large. Surreal elements are reminiscent of the writing of Kafka, but also of a vogue of new young writers such as Valerie Fritsch or Teresa Präauer. Steinbeck subverts the conventions of the fairy tale to deal with the psychological state of a girl growing up with a troubled relationship to her family. Her imaginative approach and lyrical style of expression make for a different kind of coming-of-age novel and a striking debut. (Source: New Books in German 40/2016)
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Nicolas Bouvier, The scorpion-fish: In Nicolas Bouvier’s oeuvre the scorpion fish takes on a central role. Bouvier remembers his 1956 sojourn in Sri Lanka during which he succumbed to illness, depression, bad dreams and the pain of love. We encounter the author in the town of Galle in a cheap room, increasingly trapped in himself. He is ill and oscillates between fascination for and desperation about his host country. Memories of the mild India he came from before makes this hotbed of lethargy all the more unbearable. His observations are blurred and sharp at the same time. Pressed by the activity of the omnipresent insects who seem to take up all his attention his report is pulled into the maelstrom of images and associations. Moreover, his language is fraying and thereby reflecting the madness. It is in this aspect that we find the fascination for this capturing report of an «anti-journey». Bouvier wrote the book in 1981 in retrospect, based on memories, notes and a nocturnal dictation, the «zone de silence». He himself called the text «surécrit», over charged and over orchestrated. But it is in that exact way that he renders the feverish agitation and the existential abysses linguistically palpable. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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