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Spiegel Online: »Have you ever considered writing, rather straightforwardly and at length, about your relationship with Ernst Jandl?«
Mayröcker: »I’ve thought about it, but I need time.« Interview from October 26, 2001
Friederike Mayröcker took her time. After the death of Ernst Jandl, her counterpart in both life and writing, she began to summon up the spectral contents of her experiences, again finding form for the dreams, observations, interactions and impressions that comprise the ineffability of recollection. What resulted is a most touching and unconventional book of memories.
The act of writing is the recovery of what has been lost. And I Shook Myself a Beloved is a departure that leads into the very centre of her prose: »a poetic heartbeat« between sadness and memories.
»A raw literary meditation on loss.« Kirkus
»With breathless abandon, [Mayröcker] has continually expanded her oeuvre and exploded notions of genre and convention, while always getting to the heart of this earthly living.« BOMB magazine
»Friederike Mayröcker, among the world's greatest living writers, reinterprets literary vocation as total theater.« Wayne Koestenbaum
»Through the powerful immediacy of her at times heart-wrenching language, Mayröcker proves that grief does not have to be private and can acquire a dignity that triumphs over any worry about decency.« Heide Kunzelmann, TLS
»A raw literary meditation on loss.« Kirkus
»With breathless abandon, [Mayröcker] has continually expanded her oeuvre and exploded notions of genre and convention, while always getting to the heart of this earthly living.« BOMB magazine
»Friederike Mayröcker, among the world's greatest living writers, reinterprets literary vocation as total theater.« Wayne Koestenbaum...
Friederike Mayröcker was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she died in 2021. From 1946 to 1969 she taught English at various secondary schools in Vienna. Her first literary works date back to 1939. She began publishing poems in journals in 1946, her first book was published in 1956. She wrote poetry, prose, plays, radio plays and children's books and was honoured with numerous distinguished national and international literary awards.
Friederike Mayröcker was born in 1924 in Vienna, where she died in 2021. From 1946 to 1969 she taught English at various secondary schools in...
»Esteemed listeners, do not try to lift the secret of this text«, orders Friederike Mayröcker in her new work of prose – but even its title leaves an infallible...
»Jimi the Polar Bear was lying in the arms of the sleeping child, his paws crossed. It was 1 very young polar pear the size of a puppy and he hardly dared to breathe so as not to wake the child. The child was dreaming that Jimi was lying in its arms and told him 1 story.«
Thus begins the short poetic story of Jimi the Polar Bear and the child Emma, told by the great Austrian poet...
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fleurs – the flowers, the flower petals, they give this book its title, make us think of spring, of mild air and gently flowing ribbons. But if you let yourself be lured onto that...
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Friederike Mayröcker doesn’t have time. Neither for résumé and memory, nor for extensive observations and reasoning and certainly not for storytelling. She doesn’t even have time for life itself...
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Études is what Friederike Mayröcker calls her prose poetry and lyrical prose pieces, studies then, or »shreddings«, as she says, splintering, brittle and highly concentrated; the language...
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USA (The Song Cave), Spain (Ediciones de Aqui), France (Atelier de l'Agneau)
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»brütt«. To Friederike Mayröcker a symbol of pain and hardship, of the cold and of grief, were it not for the »sighing gardens« that lend a soft counterbalance to the stirrings of love...
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France (Atelier de l’Agneau)
More than an account of a train trip from Paris to Vienna, Night Train depicts a journey through life, as conceived by the female narrator.
In poetic prose...
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