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Reading tip
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)
Reading tip
Monique Schwitter, Goldfischgedächtnis: «Vertigo» is the title of one of the stories in Monique Schwitter's collection «Goldfischgedächtnis» (Goldfish Memory). And you might well become dizzy when you read these unusual short stories. Are they true or not? «Whether this story is true, I don't know, but I've heard it so often, I can't imagine it wouldn't be.» In the fifteen stories making up this collection, the characters often find themselves on shaky ground. Things are not easy for them: on the contrary. In the end all they want is a secure place in an insecure world. These stories are above all about the struggle to survive. The characters take things to extremes, to where tragedy and comedy, hope and hopelessness, life and death, clash. A man sits in a hotel room and reads and reads, until reading takes over his life and becomes more real than reality. A small boy is shocked when his father grants his Halloween wishes. An actress complains that she remembers all the lines of all the parts she has ever had to learn in her life: «I've forgotten the technique of forgetting my lines!» She is forced to remember everything. Remembering and forgetting are recurring themes in these intricately crafted stories.
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Andreas Neeser, Unsicherer Grund: A narrator remembers a football game when he was at school, while he was silently watching a beautiful woman in the swimming pool. Or he goes to the theatre in the evening and his heart almost comes to a standstill. Andreas Neeser’s stories contain moving events, yet without any obvious external impact. States of consciousness are described with fine analysis and they hold up a mirror in which the world collapses into meaningful particles. The narrative identity attempts to secure a firm position on uncertain ground. Andreas Neeser’s eight new narratives reveal the true lyricist. The author visibly attempts to position every word in the right place and not to employ a single word too often. His prose gains a concentrated density which produces coherence but lacking overhasty conclusiveness. This precision is in tantalizing contradiction to the uncertain ground on which the narrative identity stands with respect to characters within the narrative. The “changing uneventfulness of my provisional existence”, which must be absorbed with all the senses, only wins stability and permanence through flashes of memories. Neeser’s prose is bound-up instability. Even if or precisely because nothing happens, this works surprisingly well, because true stories are concealed behind poetic masquerades – in spite of everything. (Beat Mazenauer)
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Hansjürg Buchmeier (Hrsg.): DEON Architekten. Bauten und Projekte 2000-2025. Park Books.
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