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Christine Wunnicke’s novel “Wachs” tells glowing cleverly of the lifetime of anatomess Marie Biheron and asks the at all times legitimate query concerning the distinction between man and machine.

“‘Unletted’ is Marie, the word already falls in the third movement of the novel and reverberates to the end,” writes our reviewer Tilman Spreckelsen: “She knows what she wants and does not care about what the Parisian society of the middle eighteenth century awaits – which girl would otherwise be nothing more than a slight wish? Manipulative, in all areas from the practice of their science to love.

Her partner Madeleine, now on the threshold on the eightest birthday, remembers in a scene of the novel about how she was initially seduced by the then fourteen -year -old Marie: ‘Marie was still proud of that. She told about it with a cheeky face, like an old lust, who praised the conquest of his youth. There was nothing more to see. ‘

A revolutionary doesn’t let the intelligent creator be her heroine, “no less than not in what she creates – it’s extra mature than all the things that’s like that, however she is firmly in a convention of duplicate of physique elements or the physique,” writes Spreckelsen: “However In the Tuilerien Park: After delimiting folks to the machine, she is searching for what separates him from essentially the most related animal on the opposite facet. ”

Literary hiding sport of the best grace: Norms Gangnus publishes the information and letters of an artwork historian within the Third Reich. The result’s a e book that none existed.

The e book is “also a large poetic work of art”, writes our reviewer Andreas Platthaus, “because in addition to the topic of predatory art in World War II, it also offers a timeless literary: Lifetime love Arved from Sternheim to the exile russian Anna Besdoma, who lives in France.

This relationship is presented by Gangnus by a subtly simulated correspondence with numerous gaps in the tradition (and the references to the alleged predecessor band in which the correspondence of the twenties should be). “

Rape, youngster homicide, corruption: Yasmina Reza was a observer for years in spectacular authorized processes. Now the shy star creator has condensed her impressions of a cupboard of terror, which surprises with intimate insights.

REZA’s narrative mission, our reviewer Sandra Kegel is “horizontally laid out and multi -perspective, spread over 54 texts. On the one hand, it reduces them from the duty to take a look at the big picture of a case. This literary freedom is sometimes due to the texts if the ridiculous in re -typical manner is so pointed to the tragic manner that in the end is all. Connected and the outputs remain approximate.

In the novel “Lyneham”, Nils Westerboer sends the failed humanity into the cosmic exile on and on earth.

Our reviewer Dietmar Dath writes: “‘With each circulation round his dwelling world’, explains the e book, ‘the entire moon is stretched and immersed, the land mass itself experiences ebb and flood. No motive stands nonetheless, the deeper layers repeatedly, and poisonous vapors rise into the environment. The little phrase ‘Gottfroh’ doesn’t need to be missed right here.

In conclusion, Dath notes: “Again, Nils Westerboer with ‘Lyneham’ makes an unmistakable contribution to the present, by people such as Aiki Mira, Theresa Hannig and he worn hey-speaking German-language science fiction.”

100 years after the primary publication, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” seems in a brand new translation as an anniversary version. The nice allure of the novel is {that a} excessive -stapler describes one other.

“With Bernhard Robbens now there are now new translation in a beautifully designed anniversary volume along with a lot of material now there are no whopping nine transfers to German in public publishers,” states our reviewer Jan Wiele: “While it’s truly not a lot incorrect in his translation and at most it’s tough in some locations, the place the unique is a bit obscure, the attribute spots are notably flowering or particularly Particularly fascinating for the comparability.