Friederike Mayröcker

"Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's late-life love affair as told through her journal - a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found items from newspaper articles, literature, art, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are subordinate to the author's linguistic experiments." "Mayrocker's prose creates a hypnotic, slurred narrative stream that is formally seamless while simultaneously overstepping all the bounds of grammar and style. She pushes to expose the limits of language and explore its experimental potential, seeking a reordering of the world through the reordering of words."--book jacket.

Beginning with personal remembrances, experiences, and feelings, Mayrocker adds linguistic material collected from a variety of sources (which through the years she gathered on pieces of paper) to create a grand collage in with each clouded peak, a collage subject to the permutations, repetitions, and rediscoveries of everyday life. The result is a text that does not easily fit into any genre, as it straddles autobiography, essay, fiction, and poetry.

The decision was an important one. That's why Sarah left her job in England to visit her grandmother in Spain. There she could think things out - decide whether to marry her childhood sweetheart. She hadn't counted on meeting someone like the darkly handsome Carlos Hastings, and she was hypnotized by his alluring charm. It didn't seem to matter that she was an English nanny and he a man of the world. But it did complicate her decision. Should she settle for the secure life of a doctor's wife, or risk an affair with a man who would never have serious feelings about her?

215 p. ; 21 cm

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Willy's touch is all that is needed to bring the baby dinosaur out of his magic sleep ready for adventure.

Wenn die Büste einfach so vom Schrank fällt, wenn die mediterrane Sommernacht dunkler ist als jede Nacht davor, wenn wir als ein scheinbar völlig anderer von einer Reise zurückkehren, wenn sich die todbringende Krankheit wie von selbst zurückbildet – immer dann sprechen wir von Wundern. Wunder durchkreuzen felsenfeste Sicherheiten, werden ersehnt und sind gefürchtet. Sie gehören zum Webstoff der menschlichen Fantasie und verbinden mit dem Göttlichen. Sechzehn zeitgenössische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller erzählen unterhaltsame, nachdenkliche, ernste und amüsante Wundergeschichten.