Wilhelm Genazino (1943–2018)
Teoksen The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt tekijä
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Genazino, Wilhelm
- Syntymäaika
- 1943-01-22
- Kuolinaika
- 2018-12-12
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Germany
- Syntymäpaikka
- Mannheim, Germany
- Kuolinpaikka
- Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
- Asuinpaikat
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Heidelberg, Germany - Koulutus
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
- Ammatit
- journalist
- Organisaatiot
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Bayrische Akademie der schönen Künste, Abteilung Literatur - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Georg Büchner Preis (2004)
Solothurner Literaturpreis (1995)
Hans Fallada Prize (2004) - Erotteluhuomautus
- VIAF:76374037
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Kirja-arvosteluja
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- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 31
- ISBN:t
- 114
- Kielet
- 9
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 5
But that's not quite what we get. There's no solipsism and self-pity here, the narrator remains aware of the needs and emotions of his (women-) friends and is able to look at his own plight and the human condition (the long rainy day against which our bodies form the umbrellas) with detachment and a sense of irony, and the author connives to allow the slightly absurd depression-management strategies the narrator jokily proposes to himself actually to produce results: focussing on the sound of autumn leaves underfoot (he fills a spare room with them), visualising throwing his jacket away into the bushes, giving his depression a name (Gertrud) and wrestling with her, and so on.
So, an oddly upbeat, encouraging little book, and it's also full of lovely, unexpected little bits of wittily-detailed observation of the urban scene: people acting oddly in the street or in restaurants, or as seen from the windows of the narrator's apartment; the sales manager of the shoe company, who insists on trapping the narrator in long discussions about 1970s model railway equipment when he delivers his shoe-reports; Frau Balkhausen, who tells a local TV reporter that she likes looking at floodwater because it feels good to imagine that you're watching the end of the world. And much more. Clearly, the world is a much odder place for Genazino than most of us give it credit for.… (lisätietoja)