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Reading tip
Dorothee Elmiger, Schlafgänger: «Sleepwalkers» is unusual in its approach, reading more as a collage of voices; narratives interweaving, interrupting and overlapping one another. Quite what is being discusses is at times oblique, but seems to have an underlying political urgency and circles around themes of borders and frontiers: stories of immigrants and of those trying to cross borders illegally, human rights and the market value of human beings. Sleep and sleeplessness are leitmotifs. Two words important to the narrative are ambiguous. Schlafgänger means 'sleepwalker', but also refers to the large numbers swarming to urban centers in search of work and an escape from poverty in the nineteenth century; and Grenzgänger indicates both ghostly figures who 'reside' close to borders, hoping to find a way across, and those who legally cross to their home or workplace. Disturbing, bewildering, and with a soundscape that has a poetic beat that buzzes in the head, this highly unusual short work is a courageous contribution to the immigration debate and a striking work of literary fiction. (Source: New Books in German, issue 36 / 2014)
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Jérôme Meizoz, Père et passe: Driving peacefully through the countryside, it suddenly dawns on Jérôme Meizoz that his father is mortal. From that moment on, everything changes and he starts taking notes, interweaving memories, dreams and anecdotes in order to preserve something of his father before he disperses back into the expanse of galactic detritus from whence he came. These fragments of narration give «Père et passe» an open structure that allows space for silences and for the memories to resonate. Over the course of the book the writing becomes party to the father’s disappearance and forms part of the conspiracy to undermine the superstitious idea that his father will go on living if the author keeps writing. The work closes with a sigh of relief on the words «Il ne s'est rien passé» (nothing happened). Something has happened, however. With this «paper room» created to receive the man in his moment of passing, the author has set down a modest and poetic expression of his love for his father. Meizoz’ prose juxtaposes distant echoes of childhood feelings with an adult’s observations of an ageing man. The author tenderly records the actions, deceptions and triumphs of this man of the countryside, who is unable to express his feelings – it wouldn’t do to be too emotional in this Valais village «attached like a font to the side of the mountain». Meizoz confirms here his talent for succinct, elliptical narration. This attempt by the author to come to terms with the end of life distills a thousand emotions down to their essence, and is sure to strike a chord with fathers and sons everywhere. (Anne Pitteloud, trans. by Andrea Mason)
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Eleonore Frey, Muster aus Hans: «Hans ist anders als die andern. Das sind die andern auch. Es ist sein Anderssein, das anders ist.» (Hans is different from the others. And so are the others. It is his being different that is different.) This is how Eleonore Frey begins the report about the wild Hans. Hans is a nonconformist, there is no norm that fits him and he refuses any kind of order. There is, however, an attentive, even refined side in Hans. Every day he writes his observations into his journal, thereby denying the dutiful citizen their prejudice. They prefer to avoid someone like him, they don’t want to know who this bearded man really is. The accurate prose on the one side and the wild person of Hans create a tandem with an invigorating tension. Eleonore Frey’s language has sloppy facets, Hans, in turn, reveals a subtlety expressed in his journal of truth. While she might romanticise her narrator from a distance, Hans won’t be caught by this, he is far too wild. (Beat Mazenauer, trans. by Anja Hälg)
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Charles Lewinsky: Melnitz (TB). Diogenes Verlag.
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Bernhard Herold: Nationalpark Val Grande. Unterwegs in der Wildnis zwischen Domdossola und Lago Maggiore. Rotpunktverlag.
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