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just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now

Friederike Mayröcker

Engl. (Ind.)

just sitting around here GRUESOMELY now
Friederike Mayröcker
Translation: Roslyn Theobald
Kolkata, Seagull Books 2022
148 pages

German

ich sitze nur GRAUSAM da
Friederike Mayröcker
Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag 2012
140 pages

Poetic, ingenious prose in playful sentences, some only begun. A stream of thought and an intoxication of the senses. The narrator jumps back and forth like a bouncy ball, doesn't care about orthographic conventions and thus clearly turns language into art.

Translation sponsored by the Goethe-Institut

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