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Witold Gombrowicz, Klaus Staemmler: Die Besessenen (Hardcover, Polish language, Carl Hanser Verlag München)
Possessed (Polish: Opętani) is a 1939 novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published under the pseudonym Zdzisław Niewieski. It …
it's a rather short novel about an retired professor of middle-east languages, who is convinced about being Abraham.
his niece, who is telling us the story, is fulfilling the professors last wish and publishes the autobiography of 'Abraham', at the same time trying to draw the connections between the real life and the imagined one.
it is a good thing, that at no time the lines between imagination and real life are getting blurred: we always know, here is no 'Abraham' reincarnated. instead we are following a retelling of the legends and biblical stories, interjected by the musings of the niece.
it is a subtle edifying read, i would say.
Os Lusíadas, usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written …
can't stand these hacked and splintered words in the burtons' translation give it a new try later maybe
The Tigers of Mompracem are a band of rebel pirates fighting against the colonial power …
never knew a hero like this: it's like watching one of the infamous outbursts of Klaus Kinski love it so far but may get tired of it
„Wer ist die denn?! Wo ist der Krause?“ „Ich bin Krause“, antwortete ich und registrierte, …
okay, it is rather a draft than a real novel: the 80ies setting is more proclaimed than it is shown, the characters were thrown at you and the plot is held together by rush conveniences. but it is such a fun text to read, the dialogues especially and despite the cracks and holes you feel on every page the energy and wit of the main character.
„Wer ist die denn?! Wo ist der Krause?“ „Ich bin Krause“, antwortete ich und registrierte, wie mein Herzschlag sich spontan …
Parker makes the mistake of letting an amateur in on the score, and one of …
well… when you have to wait in an empty flat, you might read it in just 3 hours
Das Europaparlament – eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch …
devastating as I thought it would be. times in the european parliament and bureaucracy with a semi.professional politician and common sense. it throw's a light on the realities of democracy in our countries.
(still not convinced about the biographical touch in the beginning, although i can understand, why it is placed there)
Das Europaparlament – eine hervorragende Idee. Nur in der Realität leider ein Witz, und noch …
ich habe mehrmals 'Das Hohe Haus' von Willemsen gehört, ein beobachtender blick auf ein jahr bundestag, der im laufe dieser zeit fühlbar immer enttäuschter auf das 'gebaren' der politiker reagiert. ich erinnere mich, das dem buch teilw. ein zu naiver blick auf politik vorgeworfen wurde und das man sich ihrer unschönen realitäten nuneinmal stellen müsse. nun hier gleich ein sehr leidenschaftlicher einstieg, der genau das verheißt.
Eine bessere Welt ist möglich! Theresa Hannig, die Autorin von "Die Optimierer", hat eine Utopie …
a hard decision it is! i like the idea of a self-conscious ai, which finds it an easy thought, to lift the human race in order to sustain the own existence. and the master plan is along the well-discussed concepts of an informed market economy -- i don't like to say informed capitalism, there's already a weakness in claiming such a society would be still exploitative -- and a basic income. some might say, the mechanics of the changes are too plain described, it might be too easy a victory to be convincing. i would say, it's an utopian fiction and alright.
so what is not to like? Hannig insists to show dull personal in a painfully close up. there is a lot of drama and emotion, but it is not rooted or even connected to the mentioned ideas and developments around. You have to read a lot of stuff, …
a hard decision it is! i like the idea of a self-conscious ai, which finds it an easy thought, to lift the human race in order to sustain the own existence. and the master plan is along the well-discussed concepts of an informed market economy -- i don't like to say informed capitalism, there's already a weakness in claiming such a society would be still exploitative -- and a basic income. some might say, the mechanics of the changes are too plain described, it might be too easy a victory to be convincing. i would say, it's an utopian fiction and alright.
so what is not to like? Hannig insists to show dull personal in a painfully close up. there is a lot of drama and emotion, but it is not rooted or even connected to the mentioned ideas and developments around. You have to read a lot of stuff, which simply doesn't gratifies you. the best characters in my opinion are the ai itself and a sidekick loser.
there is an extra star earned by the surprising end.
(schön und ausführlich auf deutsch besprochen bei diesen beiden: sprawlradio.letscast.fm/)
some are dated, some are nice some are funny, some are weird read for yourself is my advice and the odd pictures are a completely other story
Eckstein-Diener, behind the penname Sir Galahad, gives you a survey of the knowledge about history and forms of matriarchic societies of her time (that is a about 1930 ). interesting points : the language or style of Oswald Spengler, omnipresent in the whole book. it's an interesting thought for a study to follow the roots and branches of this kind of speaking and hot headed discussing throughout humanities the chapter about the spartans is kind of funny in a lewd way. it's all '300' in a fanfiction, but pretending to be science.
but be warned, it has the careless racism of it's time and doesn't shy cruelty in the name of traditions, which you have just to understand properly.
manchmal gibt es zu alten büchern gerne auch eine dreingabe. in diesem fall wohl eine alte to.read.liste. wäre das letzterscheinungsjahr aussagekräftig, wohl ungefähr aus dem jahr 1950. wie aus dieser zeit naheliegend, finde ich das nebeneinander so unterschiedlicher biografien spannend
...und das bei der freude an sachliteratur am ende etwas zur zerstreuung steht [die einschätzungen beruhen auf einer kurzen onlinerecherche]
Sir Galahad - Mütter und Amazonen, 1931 Freud - Totem und Tabu,1913 Benn - Kunst und Macht, 1934 Benn - Der (neue) Staat und die Intellektuellen, 1933 Fritz Usinger - Medusa. Aufsätze zu Bildern, 1940 [Kollaborateur] Bruno Frank - Tage des Königs, 1924 [Exilschriftsteller] Heinrich Blücher - Die Rolle der Gotik Giselher Wirsing - Der maßlose Kontinent, 1942 [Nazi]
zurück: Uzarski - Spanische Reise, 1921 [Emigrant] Leip - Abschied in Triest, 1949 [Kollaborateur] Valmore - Gedichte [Franz. Romantikerin] Vietta - Iphigenie in Amerika, 1949 [Innere Emigration] Tiedemann - Die Haut …
manchmal gibt es zu alten büchern gerne auch eine dreingabe. in diesem fall wohl eine alte to.read.liste. wäre das letzterscheinungsjahr aussagekräftig, wohl ungefähr aus dem jahr 1950. wie aus dieser zeit naheliegend, finde ich das nebeneinander so unterschiedlicher biografien spannend
...und das bei der freude an sachliteratur am ende etwas zur zerstreuung steht [die einschätzungen beruhen auf einer kurzen onlinerecherche]
Sir Galahad - Mütter und Amazonen, 1931 Freud - Totem und Tabu,1913 Benn - Kunst und Macht, 1934 Benn - Der (neue) Staat und die Intellektuellen, 1933 Fritz Usinger - Medusa. Aufsätze zu Bildern, 1940 [Kollaborateur] Bruno Frank - Tage des Königs, 1924 [Exilschriftsteller] Heinrich Blücher - Die Rolle der Gotik Giselher Wirsing - Der maßlose Kontinent, 1942 [Nazi]
zurück: Uzarski - Spanische Reise, 1921 [Emigrant] Leip - Abschied in Triest, 1949 [Kollaborateur] Valmore - Gedichte [Franz. Romantikerin] Vietta - Iphigenie in Amerika, 1949 [Innere Emigration] Tiedemann - Die Haut der Maske, 1949 Heatter - The Dim View, 1946
what's this about 'b' and 'f'? why is it called 'elben' but usually we say in german 'elfen'? looked up in the grimm, only to be more astonished: yes, there is the entry 'elben', but all of grimm's examples read 'elfen'. Can someone throw some light on the matter?