Contemporary literature: The Inferno is everywhere

The truth lies in chaos: The new novels by Silvia Bovenschen and Monika Maron tell and rumbling in the midst of the crisis-based present.

Contemporary literature: The Inferno is everywhere
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    The literature tells of Chaos, and its origin is in reality: Trump, Brexit, refugee debate, right-back, terrorism, dictatorships – crises where you look. It erscheintvielleicht necessary that classical narration also has to undergo change. And now released energetic fictions of MonikaMaron and 2017 deceased Silvia Bovenschen meet nerve of our time.

    Bovenschens Lug and wearing and colying striving is a novel about lack of orientation of our days. Eigentlichführen Lupinskis – Agnes, her nephew Max, her aunt Alma and her bror-in-law – in a city house that has been coming into years almost normal life. Wundersamesereignet, on or hand, appears as an ominous Mr. Odino. Alma had einstfür him. Now he wants to move in attic where he finds with young strange things, including masks, grotesque garments and photos, inverstaubten chests and cupboards.

    From n on Dasrealistische happens more and more in a fantastic arrangement. The teenager, his new friend and Alma break into a Ortnamens Mispelheim, where y soon portrayed in a modern mystery play. Ghost-like doppelgangers appear, recite baroque Vanitas verses. Dragons and "Wolves Monsters" conquer a Colosseum to immediately disappear again.

    First backdrop kingdom, n reality

    In addition to modern version of Walpurgis Night: "The high Priest of all-enduring high-tech order, Honourable Princes of techno-plastic transhumanism, noble masters of Biodiversity [...], Lachzwangdiva and award-winning bird." In short, what rages in this world is a powerful disorder, of quotations, substances, myths, but not zuletztauch of distorted mirrors of twenty-second century. DieWesen embody attributes of consumer and collecting society or y versinnbildlichendie consequences of an unbridled willingness to progress.

    That many nowadays can no longer completely decipher toasingle attributions of meaning, hängtwohl with a certain history of oblivion, which a derMispelheimer figure speaks itself: "If re is no more past, re is also no Order. " Before Lupinskis and also Leserdas tangle can penetrate, story goes down in a DantischenInferno. The trio can still save mselves, back to TraurigenEreignisse of everyday life. On backdrop, harshness of reality follows.

    Silvia Bovenschens Roman Zeigtsowohl The symptoms as well as rapies of our time: In PostfaktischenEpoche, fake stories and conspiracy ories. It is a Hochphasefür fantasy detached from reality. As far as diagnosis. A way out of chaos, however, is to reveal narrative of chaos. The enigma provokes will to understand, it demands UnsereKreativität out.

    Date Of Update: 25 March 2018, 12:03
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