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Gedichte
mit einem Vorwort von Peter Handke
by Kito Lorenc
»Kito Lorenc erzählt die sorbische Geschichte in seinen Gedichten, wo das spezielle Geschichtswissen übergegangen ist in etwas Universelles, die Ahnung. Und diese Ahnung geht, gedichtweise, das heißt: Weise des Gedichts, wiederum über ins Bild, in die Bilder, in den Klang, in die Klänge, und wird so Gegenwart, anders als die Vergegenwärtigungen selbst der lebendigsten Geschichtsschreiber. Was anders? Wie anders? Keine Antwort, keine Erklärung. Die wird auch gar nicht gebraucht oder, bewahre, benötigt vor, mit oder nachsolchart Gedichten. Diese sind, schlicht und einfach, etwas anderes, so wie es in den Erzählungen Adalbert Stifters [,,,] jedes Mal schlicht und einfach, ohne Kommentar, ohne Wenn und Aber, heißt: ›Das ist (das war, das wird) etwas anderes.‹« Peter Handke
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FictionTHE LOONY BIN ON THE HILL
by SUZANA TRATNIK
NOMINATED FOR THE KRESNIK AWARD IN 2019 (FOR THE BEST NOVEL IN SLOVENIA). THE LOONY HOUSE ON THE HILL (Norhaus na hribu) “Oh, believe me, this woman, who is still so young, did all this. She killed someone, disposed of the body and concealed it all.” This sentence in the introduction to the novel surprises us, but still does not prepare us for what follows. The main character, Ariana, whose mother disappeared when Ariana was still very little, lives in a tense, conflictive relationship with her aunt, in the remote village of Privežice. The place which, as noted by the merciless observer and commentator Ariana, appeared around the madhouse on the hill at the end of the paved road, where one of the inmates was her grandmother. What happens is not a typical love story or a typical story about getting to know oneself, although it talks precisely about this. What distinguishes this novel above all else is the lively, flowing dialogue, and the uncompromising, direct aesthetics (sometimes involving ugliness or at least uncouthness or lack of political correctness), which grabs us and takes us on a crazy adventure.
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Literary FictionDecember 2013FLORENCE
Mistress of Max Gate
by Peter TAIT
The Second Mrs Hardy From the moment she first met Thomas Hardy in 1905, having written him an admiring letter, Florence Dugdale seemed destined for controversy. Her presence at Max Gate, both before and after the death of Hardy’s first wife Emma, and her clandestine courtship with a man nearly forty years her senior sparked suspicion among the locals and scorn from the Gifford family. She had wanted to be a writer herself, but was drawn into Hardy’s life as his ‘secretary’ and companion, and within a year of their own marriage was humiliated by his publication of poems commemorating the late Emma and his painful relationship with her. Yet in the posthumous biography of her husband that bore her name she would tell the ‘truth’ and at last achieve the acclaim she sought – or so she had imagined, until that fiction too began to unravel. After fourteen years of marriage, and despite her own gifts and her life thereafter, her fate was to be remembered by her obituary tag in a national newspaper – ‘helpmate to genius’. Her love life stunted, her literary ambitions thwarted, disowned by the Stoker family and satirized by Somerset Maugham – Florence’s lot was an unenviable one. Why did she put up with it all? In his compelling recreation of Florence’s life, Peter Tait tells of a letter, one that Hardy had written to her on the eve of their wedding, which she kept until her death, when, under instructions, it was destroyed … ‘And with it died part of the secret, the secret that helped explain Florence. For, as Thomas found out to his cost, there was more to Florence than was evident from their first meeting. And so began their trail of deceptions, first of Emma, then of their friends and, finally, of us all.’
