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Chargement... All the Lights: Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008 (original 2008; édition 2011)par Clemens Meyer (Auteur)
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Take the bare prose of Raymond Carver, apply the bleak outlook of Michel Houellebecq, place characters from an Irvine Welsh book on German streets, and you have something close to this collection of 15 short stories. Some of the stories conclude on a note that makes you think the author didn’t know how to bring it to a close; or the ending is too obvious. ‘Hello Fatty’, in which a fat schoolteacher wonders what happened to the schoolgirl he developed an inappropriate interest in, ends with the teacher having a heart attack. ‘The Shotgun, The Street Light, And Mary Monroe’ is told by a deranged narrator who it is revealed at the story’s close, in a rare note of melodrama, has strangled the girlfriend he has led us to believe is sleeping. Appartient à la série éditorialePrix et récompensesListes notables
A man bets all he has on a horserace to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up by chance. She imagines their future together... Stories about people who have lost out in life and in love, and about their hopes for one really big win, the chance to make something of their lives. In silent apartments, desolate warehouses, prisons and down by the river, Meyer strikes the tone of our harsh times, and finds the grace notes, the bright lights shining in the dark. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)833.92Literature German and related languages German fiction Modern period (1900-) 1990-Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Die Hauptdarsteller dieser Geschichten werden vielleicht nicht zu Clemens Meyers Lesern zählen. Die Leser seiner Geschichten sind wahrscheinlich eher die Mittelschichtsbürger, die sich einen Blick auf die Unterschicht erlauben- durch die Brille eines Autors, der diese Welt gut erzählen kann. Seine Geschichten sind Symbole und Metaphern der inneren Einsamkeit und Aussichtlosigkeit, die das Leben für viele Menschen oft genug bereit hält. ( )