Anyone who has ever tried to write a novel knows what it is tedious for a venture, it is undoubtedly a particularly bad form of self-employment. All the time you have to be yourself in a Einpersonenzelle, in complete solitude. It is a controlled psychosis, paranoia and also Obession, which is connected with work and therefore not with the feathers, frills and Venetian masks ausagestattet that we associate with it, but rather with butcher's apron and rubber boots and a knife for evisceration in the hand .
Tokarczuk - unrest
Last weekend a creative writing workshop on the topic of fantasy (it was very interesting to join such a thing, a women's round, however, that the prejudices completely appropriate) this weekend playing in the Eifel and in between bit of a hanging. Two reports from the Litcologne are pending - maybe I'll write tomorrow, when the time change I do not completely throw off the track, this useless fault of my rhythm of life '.
With Coleridge I am through. At least the end of life, he was allowed beleaguered slowly enjoy the fame as a sage of Highgate. The financial problems remained, the opium addiction as well, but they were side effects become. Just then, of course, when Coleridge finally passed through controlled cars flips from his eldest son Hartley loses due to alcoholism and disorderly conduct in the university post Oxgord. The father helps the son turns ultimately depends entirely on the father, is just one day away during a joint trip by. Coleridge met the heavy, he had always regretted to leave his wife and the children down. A hugely exciting
biography, very lively, because Holmes can often Coleridge himself in letters, diaries, poems have their say and who was a tireless writer and speaker, yet not boring, and quite self-deprecating.
To complete the reading, I have added myself Dorothy Wordsworth The Grasmere Journals and Alfoxden to get to know the other side of the Wordsworth-Coleridge-friendship. Moreover Coleridge Selected Poetry (the selection was made by the way, Holmes). It is time anyway, I reviving an evening poetry reading.
The rest of Coleridge lasted but four Dalziel and Pascoe-volumes long. Crime series, which were once wildly las develop a new charm, if you read them in the order of their release. In Volume 3 and 4 of the series has no Dalziel Pascoe (almost) or without Dalziel Pascoe get along (almost). This gives both the characters as possible on their own legs to stand.
Coleridge, however, stripped of leaves on a life that, from on to off and back down again and stumbles. As soon as he is successful, it follows even the losing streak. Much is explained by Coleridge opium addiction, his lack of organization and his indecision, on the other hand, he is suffering like a dog and sometimes he fails because of the wickedness of others. How could the man bear his own life? Perhaps helped his friends. Whenever it seemed not to proceed, then stretched Coleridge opposed by a helping hand. If he is judged by his friends, then he can despite all the weaknesses not a bad have been guy.
David Lodge on 17 March 2009 in the church culture you switch on the radio, being interviewed just Christian Brückner. Flees to the television screen, synchronized at least one of the main roles of the current film by Brückner. So it takes the audio book and who read it? Brückner. Rings the bell housing and who's at the door? The postman, who condemned already sounds like Bruckner.
Not even on the Litcologne one is safe from the man. After a presentation by David Lodge eden enchanted from the second chapter of his latest novel, Deaf Sentence that addresses the difference between blindness and deafness, and why this is a tragic and the other funny looks from las unfortunately Brückner. I can not hear that voice! Sometimes I wish I were a hippo and could plunge the ears and tighten.
After all, the rest of the evening was very nice. David Lodge humorous and eloquent presenter so that they even things translated, the Lodge had not said. The translator of the German edition (title: Excuse - coincidentally also the title of that German course on long-playing record, the Lodge passed as he by the British Council at the time of LPs and was invited British Council in Cologne) was allowed to comment briefly on the stage. Unfortunately, they only spoke generally about the difficulties of translating a novel, in which it is teeming with wordplay and interrogations only pretending. Since I'd like to hear details, but probably not enough time for it.
Lodge, whose campus novels have I read sometime in the eighties has been, then completely disappeared from my radar. Thanks to this event, he has resurfaced as a small flash. The order imposing deafness interested me, and his Henry James novel Author Author .
Baba's report.
Tokarczuk on 16 March 2009 in the church culture If you get the mouth by the moderator made watery, which in unrest, the new novel by the Tokarczuk (Whose title derives from a sect of the Russian Orthodox Church, which believes that the devil befall the people if this is stationary )
so everything happens in the said sect members of amputees who her removed leg write letters to the crew, which drank the brandy in a slump, brought in the anatomical specimens were when my curiosity awakens So that's, you should not choose as samples a section, which depicts a more leisurely episode.
Barbara Rudnik read very clearly, but also very uniform. The lecture lasted on and on, the wooden church pew under my ass was always uncomfortable, no seat position brought more relief to the ears curled slowly inside and was still a pile of leaves in front of Mrs. Rudnik, the merciless undertook a sheet after another, and read aloud. And it just did not aks was because they finally stopped. Such relief!
The moderator, not even the most vivid, then talked at length with the Tokarczuk which was by then pretty much ignored at the table and finally, finally swing came in the evening. At the content I can unfortunately not quite remember because I was too fascinated by how much I understood of Polish words and phrases and how beautiful it sounded Polish.
Baba's report.
