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Anatolin / Anatolin
Novel
In search of his own memories, the hero of this cheerful-melancholy novel realizes that an »autobiographical evacuation« has taken place. His lost brother dominates his childhood, and also turns the search for his parents into a Treichel-typical adventure.
The quest takes him to the East, to a remote one-road village in Ukraine, followed by an even smaller hamlet in the Polish region once known as the »Wartheland«. What the man...
The quest takes him to the East, to a remote one-road village in Ukraine, followed by an even smaller hamlet in the Polish region once known as the »Wartheland«. What the man...
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In search of his own memories, the hero of this cheerful-melancholy novel realizes that an »autobiographical evacuation« has taken place. His lost brother dominates his childhood, and also turns the search for his parents into a Treichel-typical adventure.
The quest takes him to the East, to a remote one-road village in Ukraine, followed by an even smaller hamlet in the Polish region once known as the »Wartheland«. What the man without a past learns about his ancestors amounts to nothing – and yet the material is more than enough to fill a novel.
Anybody who detects similarities between this account and the biography of the internationally successful author Hans-Ulrich Treichel is on the right track – but pursuing a red herring at the same time. With Anatolin, Treichel adds an interesting twist to the theme of his prizewinning novels Der Verlorene (Lost) and Menschenflug (A Man’s Flight). As entertaining as it is clever and wise, the result is a cunning puzzle play with the prerequisites for autobiographical accounts, a dance with the unknown self in search of a past.
For more information about Anatolin please note the review in New Books in German as well as the detailed English reader's report, available upon request.
2008, 188 pages
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold, Westphalia, in 1952. He now lives in Berlin and Leipzig and was professor of German Literature at the University of Leipzig. His works have been translated into 28 languages.
Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Author
Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold, Westphalia, in 1952. He now lives in Berlin and Leipzig and was professor of German Literature at the...
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