Description
One-minute novellas are stories reduced to a minimum which were invented by Hungarian writer István Örkényi during the age of Goulash communism. Helwig Brunner transports this pithy literary format into our times.
The subject matter of these one-minute novellas is everyday life. Brunner’s razor-sharp observations reveal human, interpersonal and societal absurdities which unfailingly end in surreal, sober or grotesque punchlines.
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Reviews
»A rather slim but nonetheless brilliant book … Helwig Brunner’s highly polished language is pure bliss. His little stories, always dedicated to a name, a protagonist or a hero are pearls that even after repeated reading won’t lose any of their irresistible charm.« (Franz Becker, Musenblätter)
»A reading-minutefortune.« (Barbara Weitzel, Welt am Sonntag)
»In an intelligent way refreshing sustentative.« (Monalisa Blog)
»A wonderful language, I love these short stories.« (zupf.dir.ein.wölckchen, Instagram)
Author Biography
Helwig Brunner, born in 1967 in Istanbul, lives in Graz. After his studies in music and biology he works now in an ecological planning office and is as an editor responsible for the literary journal »Lichtungen« and a series of lyric. He is the author of ten poetry books, furthermore contributions in anthologies, literary journals, online magazines and radio.
Literaturverlag Droschl GmbH
Droschl is publishing international authors like Lydia Davis, Oksana Sabuschko, Georgi Gospodinov or Julien Gracq as well as German writing authors like Iris Hanika, Ilma Rakusa, Thomas Stangl, Monique Schwitter, Thomas Jonigk or Werner Schwab. The names speak for themselves, they stand for an attitude that does not consider literature as representation but as protest and comment from the fringe. We want to address the reader’s curiosity, those who want to discover something, who focus on words, whose one great love is language, many languages, the innumerable manners of speech.
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- Publication Date February 2020
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783990590492
- Publication Country or regionAustria
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 18 EUR
- Pages144
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleGummibärchenkampagne
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions21x13 cm
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