Wilhelm Genazino (1943–2018)
Autor de The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt
Sobre El Autor
Nota de desambiguación:
(yid) VIAF:118371234
(ger) VIAF:76374037
Créditos de la imagen: Copyright © Stadt Heidelberg 2011
Series
Obras de Wilhelm Genazino
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Genazino, Wilhelm
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1943-01-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-12-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Germany
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Mannheim, Germany
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland
- Lugares de residencia
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Heidelberg, Germany - Educación
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
- Organizaciones
- Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung
Bayrische Akademie der schönen Künste, Abteilung Literatur - Premios y honores
- Georg Büchner Preis (2004)
Solothurner Literaturpreis (1995)
Hans Fallada Prize (2004) - Aviso de desambiguación
- VIAF:76374037
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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EstadÃsticas
- Obras
- 39
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 788
- Popularidad
- #32,300
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 31
- ISBNs
- 114
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 5
But that's not quite what we get. There's no solipsism and self-pity here, the narrator remains aware of the needs and emotions of his (women-) friends and is able to look at his own plight and the human condition (the long rainy day against which our bodies form the umbrellas) with detachment and a sense of irony, and the author connives to allow the slightly absurd depression-management strategies the narrator jokily proposes to himself actually to produce results: focussing on the sound of autumn leaves underfoot (he fills a spare room with them), visualising throwing his jacket away into the bushes, giving his depression a name (Gertrud) and wrestling with her, and so on.
So, an oddly upbeat, encouraging little book, and it's also full of lovely, unexpected little bits of wittily-detailed observation of the urban scene: people acting oddly in the street or in restaurants, or as seen from the windows of the narrator's apartment; the sales manager of the shoe company, who insists on trapping the narrator in long discussions about 1970s model railway equipment when he delivers his shoe-reports; Frau Balkhausen, who tells a local TV reporter that she likes looking at floodwater because it feels good to imagine that you're watching the end of the world. And much more. Clearly, the world is a much odder place for Genazino than most of us give it credit for.… (más)