German price: A high on the European Fortwurschtelei

Robert Menasse has been awarded the German price 2017. Rightly so! His Europe-Roman & #34;D IE Capital & #34; puts the burning questions at the right time.

German price: A high on the European Fortwurschtelei
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  • Page 1 — a high on European Fortwurschtelei
  • Page 2 — sense of purpose and sense of reality
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    Now it is official: DerDeutsche price 2017 goes, as was previously suspected, to österreichischenAutor Robert Menasse. Quite rightly so. Addressed Roman capital, published in Suhrkamp Verlag, not only conjures up European spirit, also fits perfectly into secret criteria of jury: he has Einepolitisch-moral message, could comment on impending ZerfallEuropas And is also skilfully composed by language and stylistically. Robert addressed Brussels-Roman is a text at right time about Denrichtigen place. For this you take a few lengths to buy.

    Now one could discuss a great deal of sense and nonsense of a German book prize, which is modelled on French Prix Goncourt and Man Booker Prize, and Denhehren claims to want to appreciate most important German-language novel of VergangenenJahres. It should be clear to everyone that such a claim can hardly be fulfilled. So much is said: addressed Roman Beschäftigtsich himself with this dilemma, in which text points to low importance of derKultur in European State budget, in which one of novel protagonists, Austrian EU official Martin Susman, almost underlies Is. The novel shows bizarreness of cultural ignorance within europäischenApparats, although it is culture on whose back DasProjekt Europe is built. Without common culture hatgemeinsame economy, education, shipping, fishing and Gurkenkrümmungsgradregulierungüberhaupt no sense.

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    Menasse is so Besehenein fulfillment of his own claims, author of first European novel. He stapelthoch and demands that re can be no genugWürdigungen for art, especially when she deals with fragile ZukunftEuropas. Not by chance play his language, but also DieHandlung of novel with architecture of man without properties, Alsomit Robert Musil Fantastic opus Magnum, Great Austrian (and actually deeply European) novel of Last century , who plays shortly before outbreak of First World War and accompanies some Austrian dignitaries, as y hope to organize a ceremony for Emperor Franz Joseph I, and miserably dabeischeitern.

    Just as in case of Musil in DenDialogen, dysfunction and naïve beauty of multiethnic state, K. U. K. monarchy, is expressed, so beschreibtMenasse some self-standing EU officials who Jubiläumsfeierfür European Union Without agreeing on ir value. At Menasse re is no protagonist (as with Musil Ulrich), but GleichberechtigteFiguren, who differ in ir different nationalities, hopes UndWünschen so much and get bogged down, as EuropäischenBürger do among mselves. Addressed Brussels is a dark waltender and still-switching apparatus, a reflection of Babylonian transmission of EU, which consists of ausmühseligen processes that appear scare, confusing, frustrating, to necessary and necessary, in time even Lovable and Manchmalsogar a little efficient.

    Date Of Update: 10 October 2017, 12:06
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