Feldeváye / Feldeváye
A Novel of the Final Arts
Dietmar Dath’s new magnum opus: A sci-fi novel about the world-changing power of art
A fantastic thought experiment at the limits of reality and possibility.
A fantastic thought experiment at the limits of reality and possibility.
For centuries there has been no art.
It has been relegated to the past – made obsolete by technologies of possibility that people could not imagine when they still lived on Earth. Now they have settled many worlds and encountered many intelligent life forms.
But on the remote planet of Feldeváye art comes back – in the form of a gift from an alien species. A young girl, Kathrin Ristau, asks some big questions: What was art? Why is it coming back? What happens to us when we...
It has been relegated to the past – made obsolete by technologies of possibility that people could not imagine when they still lived on Earth. Now they have settled many worlds and encountered many intelligent life forms.
But on the remote planet of Feldeváye art comes back – in the form of a gift from an alien species. A young girl, Kathrin Ristau, asks some big questions: What was art? Why is it coming back? What happens to us when we...
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For centuries there has been no art.
It has been relegated to the past – made obsolete by technologies of possibility that people could not imagine when they still lived on Earth. Now they have settled many worlds and encountered many intelligent life forms.
But on the remote planet of Feldeváye art comes back – in the form of a gift from an alien species. A young girl, Kathrin Ristau, asks some big questions: What was art? Why is it coming back? What happens to us when we rediscover it?
The novel tells the story of a woman who grows old but must continue to seek personal and political answers to the questions posed by art because none of the things she has experienced, from the love of her life to her path to fame to the horrors of war and civil unrest, can escape the life changing questions of art.
»Feldeváye is not a world. Not yet. It still has to be made into one. That’s exactly what we could do. Together.«
»Germany’s most prolific and radical author« Die Welt
»Germany’s most prolific and radical author« Die Welt
2014, 807 pages
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Year of Publication: 2010
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Rosa Luxemburg
Dietmar Dath, »the most productive and most radical writer in Germany« (Thomas Lindemann, Die Welt) on the revolutionary democrat Rosa Luxemburg.
Rights sold to:
Denmark (Rosenkilde)
Year of Publication: 2009
Dietmar DathYear of Publication: 2009
Collected Poems
A writer seeks to prove that politics, science and art can only lead to something when they acknowledge the prized place that poetry holds. His opponent wants to prove that poetry does not exist at all. Dietmar Dath’s new novel is the story of the hunt for words that have the power to inspire sadness or happiness. And he does not come away empty handed.
The hero of...
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Year of Publication: 2008
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Winter of Machines
As we all know, it is not machines which employ machines but humans who build and use machines. Therefore it can no longer be accepted that machines increasingly worsen our living conditions...
Rights sold to:
Turkey (Yazilama Yayinevi)
Year of Publication: 2008
Dietmar DathYear of Publication: 2008
The Abolition of Species
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Rights sold to:
US paperback edition (DoppelHouse), Italy (Nero Editions), Serbia (VBZ), Turkey (Is Kültür)
Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: English world rights (Seagull)
Year of Publication: 2007
Dietmar DathYear of Publication: 2007
Weapon Weather
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Russia (Text)
Year of Publication: 2007
Dietmar DathYear of Publication: 2007
No Conference Today
»I only produce shit nowadays,« reads a diary entry by Arno Schmidt, meaning: journalistic texts for newspapers. Since 1990, Dietmar Dath has published heaps of – well: journalistic, satirical, and essayistic texts and by doing so has created his very own fan base.
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Rights sold to:
Greece (Melani)
Year of Publication: 2005
Dietmar DathYear of Publication: 2005
Saltwhite Eyes
»Dear Sonja,« David writes in these enlightening and desperate letters to a revered classmate from days long gone, »looking back isn’t always the best idea: Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s...