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Putin’s Postbox

Eight Investigations
Suhrkamp | Insel
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Putin’s Postbox / Putins Briefkasten
Eight Investigations
Kleist Prize 2014
This collection of unpublished stories and vignettes by Marcel Beyer is a book about perception, style, listening, and writing.


One morning, Marcel Beyer drives out to the edge of Dresden in search of a postbox – not just any postbox, but the one that belonged to Vladimir Putin when he lived here in the 1980s. It is no longer there. But what Beyer sees and writes down in the course of his investigations gradually develops into a portrait of Putin that is infinitely more...
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This collection of unpublished stories and vignettes by Marcel Beyer is a book about perception, style, listening, and writing.


One morning, Marcel Beyer drives out to the edge of Dresden in search of a postbox – not just any postbox, but the one that belonged to Vladimir Putin when he lived here in the 1980s. It is no longer there. But what Beyer sees and writes down in the course of his investigations gradually develops into a portrait of Putin that is infinitely more enlightening than any weighty political biography.

Whatever Beyer turns his attention to in these stories and sketches, his meditations on language, culture, and political geography are always inspired by concrete phenomena – be it flowers above Lake Geneva, a classified ad posted by Rimbaud, a one-eyed lion at the Dresden Zoo that was provoked to roar by Dostoyevsky, a miniature painting by Gerhard Richter, or G. E. Lessing’s fire screen in Wolfenbüttel.

»Reading Beyer, you begin to look more closely at the things around you and to be more patient in trusting your own associations and digressions.« Literarische Welt

»Without a doubt one of the finer literary pleasures currently on offer.« FAS

»Marcel Beyer is a wonderfully clear-sighted storyteller. His writing is breezy and intelligent and always carries its double and deeper meaning with it. Marcel Beyer compares this art of gradually surrounding a topic in ever tighter linguistic circles to the circumvention techniques employed by spies and special agents.« Bayern 2 Radio

 

»Reading Beyer, you begin to look more closely at the things around you and to be more patient in trusting your own associations and digressions.« Literarische Welt

»Without a doubt one of the finer literary pleasures currently on offer.« FAS

»Marcel Beyer is a wonderfully clear-sighted storyteller. His writing is breezy and intelligent and always carries its double and deeper meaning with it. Marcel Beyer compares this art of gradually surrounding a...
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2012, 219 pages
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Marcel Beyer was born and raised in Cologne. The author of several novels and collections of poems, he has received numerous awards and was named one of the best young novelists in the world by The New Yorker. He lives in Dresden.

Marcel Beyer was born and raised in Cologne. The author of several novels and collections of poems, he has received numerous awards and was named...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Demon Removal Service
Year of Publication: 2020
Marcel BeyerYear of Publication: 2020

There is a performance at the trashy theatre. Hildegard Knef gets in a car. Rudolph Moshammer carries his Yorkshire Terrier around Munich. S. T. Coleridge makes a joke about Cologne. Works of art...

Rights sold to:

Kurdish rights (tîr-verlag)

The Century that Cried itself Blind
Year of Publication: 2017
Marcel BeyerYear of Publication: 2017

Considering this current moment of great change as well as the 20th century when death became a master from Germany, is literature still possible? Does it still have a reason for being in a post-Auschwitz world where all cultural production can only be an expression of barbarism? Or is literature necessary, indeed indispensible, precisely because of such atrocities? Which methods must such a...

The Karnau Tapes
Year of Publication: 2013
Ulli Lust, Marcel BeyerYear of Publication: 2013
Since his brilliant and harrowing novel The Karnau Tapes came out in 1995, Marcel Beyer has been considered »one of Europe’s best young novelists« (The New...
Rights sold to:

English World Rights (New York Review of Books), France (Ça et La), Netherlands (Scratch Books), Slovak Republic (Brak)

Kaltenburg
Year of Publication: 2008
Marcel BeyerYear of Publication: 2008
Marcel Beyer has written a grand new novel, a panorama spanning German history from the 1930s up to the present. Like in his successful Flughunde (The Karnau Tapes), ...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Harcourt), Spanish world rights (Edhasa), Chinese simplex rights (People’s Literature Publishing House), Arabic world rights (Kalima), France (Métailié), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Cossée), Sweden (Bonniers), Norway (Pax), Czech Republic (Havran), Hungary (Magvetö), Croatia (Fraktura), Serbia (Geopoetika), Turkey (Ayrinti)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Lindhardt & Ringhof / Saga Egmont)

The Karnau Tapes
Year of Publication: 1995
Marcel BeyerYear of Publication: 1995

World War II. The final days of the Third Reich. Hermann Karnau, a sound engineer, is obsessively compiling an archive of every conceivable nuance of human sound. Karnau's work so impresses...

Rights sold to:

USA (Harcourt), UK (Secker and Warburg), Spanish world rights (Debate), Russia (Amphora), France (Calmann-Lévy), Italy (Einaudi), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Denmark (Gyldendal), Sweden (Bonniers), Korea (Hyonamsa), Japan (Sanshusha), Poland (Słowo / Obraz Terytoria), Slovakia (Slovensky Spisovatel), Bulgaria (Balkani), Estonia (Tänapäev), Serbia (Geopoetika), Turkey (Ayrinti), Israel (Books in the Attic)


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29.05.2021
We are proud to announce that the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize 2021 has been awarded to Marcel Beyer.
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28.06.2016
The German Academy for Language and Literature awards the 2016 Georg Büchner Prize to writer Marcel Beyer.