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Eine Ohrfeige und sonstiges

Robert Walser

A Slap in the Face and Other Matters

Robert Walser has always inspired visual artists all around the world, including Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the most provocative and innovative contemporary artists, to whom Robert Walser is a central figure, a »hero« representing true artistry. Walser’s standard of art is always connected to a personal point of view that denotes distance to the establishment.

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Der Räuber

Robert Walser

The Robber

»The Robber, Robert Walser’s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby’s mouth as an ashtray. Walser’s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.« (book description from the English edition by University of Nebraska Press)

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Sämtliche Werke in zwanzig Bänden

Robert Walser

Fritz Kocher’s Essays

These essays, allegedly published from the estate of a deceased schoolboy, mark the beginning of Robert Walser’s literary career.

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Der Spaziergang

Robert Walser

The Walk

A pseudo-biographical »stroll« through town and countryside rife with philosophic musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser's short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, »I would be dead,« Walser explains, »and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed, charming and graceful, to the sense and eyes of the observant walker.« (from the book description of the US edition by New Direction Books)  

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Abschied von den Eltern

Peter Weiss

Leavetaking

A brilliant, brutally honest autobiographical novel, from one of the great artistic polymaths of the 20th century.

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Die Ästhetik des Widerstands

Peter Weiss

The Aesthetics of Resistance

The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weiss’s death.

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Am Weltenrand sitzen die Menschen und lachen

Philipp Weiss

On the edge of the world man sits and laughs

In On the edge of the world man sits and laughs, Philipp Weiss recounts the world’s transformation during the Anthropocene – that epoch of earth’s history in which the human being became the central constitutive power. Between France and Japan, from the 19th to the 21st century, this bold novel depicts a Panopticon of our fleeting reality. Each one of the five volumes has its own form: encyclopaedia, manga, novella, audio-transcription and notebook.

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Die Galeere

Bruno E. Werner

The Slave Ship

Dispassionate and, for that very reason, moving: a newspaper editor documents how the German intelligentsia – academics and artists, novelists and editor-in-chiefs – cringe and writhe following the Nazi’s seizure of power, but also how they create space to continue their pursuit of a good life and a moral good. In the end, however, they too are helpless in the face of the dictatorship. The narrative arc spans from the day of the Nazi’s seizure of power through the bombings of Berlin and Dresden and up to capitulation.

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Begib dich auf die Reise oder Drahtzieher der Sonnenstrahlen

Josef Winkler

Embark on the Journey or Manipulator of Sunbeams

If you read Winkler, you won’t forget Winkler’s zest for language.

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Domra

Josef Winkler

Domra

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Friedhof der bitteren Orangen

Josef Winkler

The Graveyard of Bitter Oranges

In this novel, it’s evident that Winkler hopes to never stop chasing the fear that keeps him alive. In southern Italy, where Catholic roots run deep, a deceased Carinthian altar boy collects ghastly, horrifying, caustic and ironic stories about death and other strange fates.

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Ich reiß mir eine Wimper aus und stech dich damit tot

Josef Winkler

I'm going to pluck one of my eyelashes out and stab you to death with it

»Travelling in order to become homeless«, writes Henri Michaux. When Josef Winkler was writing his novels about his Austrian region of Carinthia, the author repeatedly journeyed to Italy, and later to India and Mexico. He always took along stories by other writers, and inserted short quotes from them as insets in his poetological reports.

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Laß dich heimgeigen, Vater, oder Den Tod ins Herz mir schreibe

Josef Winkler

Take the Blame, Father or Death Be Writ into My Heart

It was only a few years ago that Josef Winkler learned about the fact that his fellow Carinthian Odilo Globocnik, who had headed the »Aktion Reinhardt« and boasted about the mass murder of countless Jews with the words »Two million we got over and done with«, was buried on a community field in Winkler’s native village of Kamering after he had committed suicide by ingesting cyanide in May 1945 – in the »Sautratten«, where Winkler’s father and grandfather grew and harvested their crop.

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Der Leibeigene

Josef Winkler

Der Leibeigene

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Leichnam, seine Familie belauernd

Josef Winkler

Leichnam, seine Familie belauernd

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Natura morta

Josef Winkler

Natura morta

Crossing the street in the afternoon in a deluge of rain to buy pizza for his colleagues, the fig seller’s beautiful son is hit by a fire engine, and dies instantly. The drama calms in the subsequent laying out of the corpse and the somenity of the burial, bringing to mind the still lives, somehow animated, of 17th century Italian and Flemish painters.

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Die Realität so sagen, als ob sie trotzdem nicht wär oder Die Wutausbrüche der Engel

Josef Winkler

Die Realität so sagen, als ob sie trotzdem nicht wär oder Die Wutausbrüche der Engel

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Roppongi

Josef Winkler

Roppongi

Josef Winkler approaches the life, death and funeral of his father from ever new angles – organizing a "wake" for his father and thus allowing this larger-than-life figure who dominated his childhood and his early works to rise up once again.

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Die Verschleppung

Josef Winkler

Die Verschleppung

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Wenn es soweit ist

Josef Winkler

Wenn es soweit ist

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