Junichiro Tanizaki: Island of the Dolls I have no problem, "Island of the Dolls" in the gallery great marriage novels have to make. This novel conveys timeless and will always be readable and hopefully stay with us in the West always present, although I am already graumelt to see these precious 150 pages to again in antique boxes. The novel is out the Japanese were translated into American, Curt Meyer-Klason gave us the German version. We did not know how the novel would seem to us in Japanese. The German translation, I think that's great. I use this language only as tender and full call of grace, so delicate, we cherry (or cherry blossoms are in respect to Japan, even a cliché?). Despite this linguistic grace of the novel is far versüßlicht. I can imagine the German translation could really teach about the atmosphere as the Japanese original. The beginning of the novel already splendid. Kaname and Misako is unable to make decisions then how in matters of divorce. "Careful her look evasive, and he looked at her. In fact, he looked just their clothes, trying to guess is an intention that ermochte ease him of his decision. " Here we have the estrangement between Kaname and Misako, we screened but not only the clothing of a woman, but the erotic is, imagine that the viewer wants, which is under clothing. But this couple is the erotic verpflogen long ago, is a physical attraction no longer exists. Therefore, Tanizaki writes on the first page of a book so completely unerotisierend and forwards in this way the theme of the novel one. Precisely this behavior that small gestures such as in the quote, have their special charm. Tanizaki theme in his novels, the contrast between tradition and modernity. The inefficiency in matters of divorce to make a decision is, in the very old tradition that embodies Misakos father. Concerns are obvious. How does the father react? The father might feel compelled because of the public opinion to deny his daughter when a divorce would be public. So the couple live together for appearances of pleasure and can not say that marriage actually lived out long ago is. Kanan is the one that is particularly the conflict between tradition and modernity. He wants to break tradition, but this does not finish. He has desöfteren attention to the Western lifestyle, where the divorce rate is very high (please note, the novel was created in 1929) and criticizes the Edoepoche, the time period of two and a half centuries before the Restoration of 1868, the period when the shoguns (military dictators ) ruled. "The Edokultur was characterized by roughness of the merchant class, and where you looked, everywhere have responded to the haze of the market place ... the mere fact that he was a child of the commercial world, it had its shortcomings, their vulgarity and their overwhelming greed feel particularly clear. His response was his pursuit of the sublime and ethereal ... " In females, he sought and in the art for the divine. Even though he was nowhere, climbed just because of his longing. Kaname overcame a painful feeling of loneliness and poverty, when he thought of the emotional life of the Japanese, which just lacks the desire for worship. Herrlich Kanan I find excuses and excuses, as the problem hinschiebt before him, his son by the project of separation . Tell Here the tragedy is combined with the comic. The novel is absolutely worth reading, and we experience so some of the tradition of Japanese puppet theater (Bunraku).
John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is a youth book. Because the father has been promoted to commander. It tells the story from the perspective of nine year old Bruno, who protested having to leave his friends in Berlin. The nine-year-old, presented very naive and ignorant believe in "Out-" be. From the window of the new house he can see into the distance. He looks over a barbed wire, and know many people are living behind the barbed wire, but it feels outside the barbed wire itself, until one day he walks down the barbed wire, and the boy, Shmuel, who lives on the other hand, countered. They talk and become friends. This should be enough to get started. We proceed to the criticism: I ask myself why someone writes a novel about Auschwitz, the unspeakable horror of the almost impossible and can not communicate in the beginning. It youth is a bad book, because a 12-year-old who knows nothing about concentration camps, the novel does not understand, a adult readers, the language to be simple. So: Who should read this? The view from the perspective of a boy is Imre Kertesz succeeded miles better because of "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" "Fateless" the reader far more transported, as in the extermination camps was done, this novel is literarily sophisticated. Boynes novel, however, apart from the final, rather bland, too lax. A novel without effect. Total flattened and trivialized. Bruno says, because his father is the commander, it may be bad after the Stachelddraht not. As cynical as it has Jews in the ears when Bruno permanently from "Out-" speaks because he has not understood the correct names. His slightly older sister Gretel had to correct him easily. Wunderlich, many adults who like the novel. Our youth can offer more content easily on National Socialism. Young people will prefer to grab the robber Hotzenplotz or Harry Potter . How exciting was Enid Blyton's Famous Five . time seriously: read it but from the point of what to expect of young people of the horrors of the Nazis, "Julian's brother by Klaus Kordon.
Bruno says, because his father is the commander can it be bad behind the Stachelddraht not. This novel one can safely forget.
Liane Dirks: The love fear "fear that shreds the brain and the heart in the toilet swallowed. Fear." Although currently the Catholic Church for sexual abuse of minors came into the twilight, such an abuse usually takes place within the family circle, in which children are defenseless against this violence. In 1986 when this subject was still a long way in the spotlight, appeared the first novel "The fear of love" Liane Dirks. From the perspective of four years of Anne, who is at the end of the novel 11 years old, we select the story of a childhood. The beginning of the novel already replaced from Betroffentheit. "Once a woman came vorbeigepflogen our window. I was very young, but I grade was watching when they flew. And then I learned that fly people can not. It landed with a dull bang on the stone tiles in the yard, and my mother said, which did not wanted to fly. The fall would have. " nonsense design, and absolutely accurate in word and compaction takes this remarkable prose of the novel. The girl four years old, is the first sexual Annnäherungsversuche of the father in a dream-laden images are told: "Sometimes at night, suddenly the dear moon before the butterfly net, I woke up, opened her eyes as the white moon face hung close to the net, looked like his dad and whispered good night ... " The father is hotel chef and a drunkard. He "loves raw meat and wild life, lush women and beer .." , in a dispute with the mother also flies once the porcelain. Has he made something, it throws its donor rolls into the street. So she goat of Hamburg to Barbados and then to Munich, Rothenburg, etc. The father is very fond of shows, of course, finally we experience the story from the perspective of the youngest daughter, and of course she loves her father, the storyteller, the stories in his wake at night makes the dolls that talk then walk, laugh and cry, rant and bill. Reckoning with how the doll mum has treated them during the day. The mother has sad eyes like Ingrid Bergman, it has life differently. Not only one life between building and tearing off of beds and tents. The father always brings his daughters to bed. is very successful in this novel, the viewing angle from the perspective of the youngest daughter. This is how the reader only that which tells us the perspective of this girl, and as she understands his environment. This friendly father, who obviously knows intimately with his daughters as his wife, this drunkard of Koch, who ingratiated himself into the souls of children in order to commit sexual abuse, insidious is going on, very slowly, step by step. The mother wants "to cover the shame" also the pastor, the trust the children to tell of the shame is different, and evaporates, because he is uncomfortable. The daughters live with the pressure to do something forbidden, because they have been shouldering guilt be. "I do not not know if I want to see angels, I'm a bad child who does illegal things." Read So are just 140 pages. But what for whom.
Liane Dirks Wrong Heaven three years before the disaster in Copenhagen, the convention appeared "Wrong Heaven" by Liane Dirks. Life in the climate crisis. The thermometer 40 ° beyond the border, ozone levels at dizzying heights, bungee jumpers plunge into the depths of absurd, absurd, yes, because the reader does not know why they do that also are exposed to ozone rigorously. They fall from dizzying heights at the window 18th Floor by where behind the window glass writes her diary, her writing life to somehow get a grip on, something to hold on life so that it gets even make any sense. For months, this heat, before hurricanes, Europe in the mud, because lakes were turned into seas. Now there is hardly anything Essse, the woman does not have cucumbers in stock, her daughter wanders around in empty streets. The woman is visited by several friends, also from Donati, who once had a puppet theater, an actor was, but now not caring even for his child that he can be as bad for too long under the deadly sunlight. With the woman he sleeps with a temperature of 37 °, ozone: 394 This will probably soon be her last tango before the excruciating heat and ozone, the fucking her life perhaps one could make farewell.
"Still. The world tends her skeleton to the east." I liked not at the novel, not because I'm such a 'laconic sentences as they weave through the novel, does not like but because they create sentences no internal stress, is to say, I do not guessed it possible to heat , even from the threat posed by the climate crisis, not a breath can be felt. The language of this novel is verskelettitiert, I do not feel any lower dimensions between the lines. Only weak, clear images graze my imagination. The characters completely colorless, no characters. And that's really true. I wonder how one can write only as a novel, particularly since no substantive rigor is also to be found. It is a disaster. The characters seem so bleak and lifeless, as though scorched by the heat even the flesh of her bones. course you can always come up with defenses, the author has deliberately written so mean, because it describes a sparse brittle world. Since I'm not sure, since Cormac McCarthy could represent a post-apocalyptic world unkarg, and it was still pretty menacing. Literature has also somehow always be beautiful, even if it is sparse, which will be described. I'm assuming that this novel was a slip of the author. Her first novel "The love fear" (applies to Kiepenheuer & Dry) "as a standard reference on the subject of sexual abuse."
