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Doris Lecher, Ich will Wurst: Timmy Tigerchild is one of those children who can provoke chaos because they plonk themselves down in the middle of the street and scream when they do not get what they want. What clamour is raised when Mum forgets Timmy’s sausage for the picnic! But the tantrum is to no avail. Neither Mum nor Dad will turn around. Instead, they hand Timmy the key to the flat and challenge him to get the sausage himself. And because Timmy does not want his siblings to think that he lacks the courage, he sets out for home.
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Thomas Hürlimann, Der grosse Kater: Thomas Hürlimann’s «Der grosse Kater» subjects Swiss politics to critical historical analysis in a polyphonic, subtly woven work of prose. It is a piece of political satire, philosophical reflection, autobiography and a family saga all rolled into one. The novel moves back and forth between two poles: while the President of the Swiss Confederation entertains the Spanish royal couple on a state visit, his security chief has arranged a visit for the lady to the clinic in which her son lies dying. The tragedy unfolds in a narrative spanning 20 hours, structured with chronological precision. The wife suspects her husband lies behind the shameful blunder and kicks up a diplomatic scandal. The novel’s epicentre focuses on the fringe of politics in the grey area between official representation and familiar intimacy, which ultimately destroys them both. In flashbacks that are constantly breaking through into the concentrated sequence of events, Hürlimann tells the story of a cunning tactician who will stop at nothing to get to the top. The latter’s meteoric career is influenced by a motherless home in the village blacksmith’s, upbringing in a monastery, initiation to politics in the province and male camaraderie in the military and student fraternity. Along the way, he becomes intimately familiar with the world of politics, which soon infiltrates his family life. «Der grosse Kater» plays out in the twilight between fiction and fact. Hürlimann continually makes use of cues, particularly of a biographical nature. However, thirty years after the events that underlie the novel, the author has managed expertly to free himself from the roman à clef genre through convincing literary manipulation of the truth. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)
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Flurin Darms, Poesia: Nature, faith and the life of the people who live in the mountains – these are the motives of this poetry edition by Flurin Darms. While the earlier poems are characterised by a traditional style with rhymes, the freer metre of his later writing makes his poetry stronger and calmer. His protagonists are «ils pervesiders», the feeders: the ones who stay for weeks on end alone feeding hay to their cattle on the remote properties. Darms’ first book of poetry which came out in 1960 was already dedicated to these silent men. One of the most delicate and most mystical poems is «Pervesiders dils aults». The verse about the urban – rural opposition seems to evoke the usual cliché. Yet the poem goes beyond that, exudes peace and strength, and deepens the empathy with the farmer through a meditative repetition. In those poems, however, in which Darms decries the human vices he departs from his sublime language and the mystical is substituted by a kind of moralising (for instance in «Salid da quels el stgir», «La tresta canzun dil pauper galiot sur dils utschals»). The poems in their successful form create a world in between, hidden behind a veil: in these worlds there is a surreal and mysterious atmosphere, no eulogy but a deep admiration for the human being who comes face to face with the secret of life – an atmosphere one also encounters in Darms’ prose. (Silvana Derungs, transl.by Anja Hälg)
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