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Mitteilung 2024-07-12 [«Topshelf Night» Schloss Lenzburg]: Eine Sommernacht zwischen Lichtern und Stars, die ganz der Literatur und dem Lesen gehört! Und Bookstagram! Und BookTok!
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Mitteilung 2024-06-26 [Bachmann-Preis]: Statt Fussball 3 Tage lang Literatur gucken: Heute starten die diesjährigen «Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur».
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Mitteilung 2024-06-24 [Pro Litteris Preis 24 – Sasha Filipenko & Maud Mabillard]: ProLitteris verleiht zwei Preise in der Sparte Literatur an Sasha Filipenko und Maud Mabillard.
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Mitteilung 2024-06-21 [Literaturfestival Zürich]: Nicht verpassen: Vom 8.-14.7.24 steigt wieder das Literaturfestival Zürich.
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Mitteilung 2024-06-17 [Stiftung Lydia Eymann Literaturstipendium]: Bis 30.6.24 bewerben fürs Stipendium der Lydia Eymann Stiftung.
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Mitteilung 2024-06-11 [Markus Bundi «Wilde Tiere»]: Beat Mazenauer bespricht «Wilde Tiere» von Markus Bundi für Viceversaliteratur.ch.
Reading tip
Roland Buti, Le Milieu de l’horizon: With a power reminiscent of some of Faulkner’s works, in his novel «Le Milieu de l’horizon» Roland Buti takes us to the small world of a farm in French-speaking Switzerland. Strange and powerful forces are at work under the surface and they are set to destabilise the family life of Gus, a thirteen year-old boy, who terrified and powerless watches a threefold collapse : of traditional agriculture, his parent’s relationship and the innocence of his childhood. All of this takes place in 1967 during the famous drought. Everything goes up in the flames of heat-wave and storm. The old mare Bagatelle finally dies. Passions burn. Everything is consumed in the flames as the author’s sober language reaches a state of incandescence. This is great literature.
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Melinda Nadj Abonji, Tauben fliegen auf: Melinda Nadj Abonji was born in 1968 in the Serbian Vojvodina, when she was a girl she emigrated to Switzerland with her parents. Two home places and two kinds of freedoms. These are the experiences her second novel “Falcons without Falconers” is based on. The narrator Ildikó Kocsis tells stories from the emigration and alternates them with anecdotes from the old home in the Voyvodina. The Koscis family is happy in Switzerland. In 1993 they open up their own café in their village. Getting there, however, was a long process for her parents Rosza and Miklós, demanding strength, patience and humbleness from them. The two daughters Nomi and Ildikó help in the café but they strive toward their own freedom. They no longer want to be humiliated and insulted as foreigners. With stylistic subtlety Melinda Nadj Abonji vividly, colourfully and wittily writes about these two aspects of a successful emigration and integration. The author reveals herself as a virtuoso stylist who manages to carry a narrative vividness into a musically flexible form. She does not fixate on recounting but rather brings forth a rhythmic structure that remains easy to read. «Tauben fliegen auf» was awarded the Deutscher Buchpreis 2010.
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Dana Grigorcea, Baba Rada: Time has stood still beneath the dwarf nut tree. Baba Rada reads an evil fate in the cards, while dead Antim crawls into a tree hollow, Ileana becomes engaged and the old red beard finally buries his head in the reeds. In her debut novel, “Baba Rada”, Dana Grigorcea allows her characters to act in a narrative space whose horizons fade away in the glittering summer light or icy cold. In the Romanian Danube Delta, the setting for her book, a hidden world seems to be a law unto itself. In the small village, hale and hearty Baba Rada keeps her family together. She grants her wish for an albino daughter with Mirabelle schnapps and magic. But a mysterious terrorist plunges everything into chaos. Dana Grigorcea’s novel is a veritable rogues gallery that is difficult to grasp and constantly reveals new stories. The “magnificent barbarism” is presented as a wild blend of fairy stories, rumours, villainy and miserable bawdiness that only appreciates good fortune in the world through legends. Life is at a standstill on the Danube island. The inhabitants have bad teeth; anyone who can escapes from here at once. But those who stay behind do not lose their will and sense of humour and sing defiant songs like “Das Leben ist vergänglich wie die Kopfhaare” (“Life is as fleeting as the hairs on the head”). Dana Grigorcea’s idiosyncratic signature makes this book an event. She was raised bilingually in Romania and now lives in Zurich. The author succeeds in creating a ghostly prose that drenches everything in a fantastic twilight and only attains schematic contours by virtue of the language. The long titles, which are reminiscent of Baroque literature, enable her to create a resonant narrative space as she continually weaves a convoluted and obscure plot. This is precisely how “Baba Rada” gains a peculiar graphic quality coupling Burlesque comedy with ghostly precision and a hint of tragedy. The bawdy stories emerge from all of this like Baba Rada’s belching “whenever I have drunk this Russian, alcoholic shampoo”. (Beat Mazenauer)
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Charles Lewinsky: Melnitz (TB). Diogenes Verlag.
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