Meine Schreibmaschine und ich

by Thomas Glavinic

Thomas Glavinic mag den Sommer. Er mag Großzügigkeit, Mut und Taktgefühl. Und er mag Menschen, die über seine Bücher nachdenken. An diese Menschen wendet er sich nun und erzählt ihnen alles, was es über ihn als Autor zu wissen gibt. Er schreibt über die Idee, die am Beginn eines jeden Textes steht, und er verheimlicht auch nicht die Torturen, die er erlebt, während er ungeduldig darauf wartet, dass aus der Idee ein Roman wird. Thomas Glavinic, einer der faszinierendsten Autoren unserer Gegenwart, gewährt Einsicht in seine Gedanken, seine Hoffnungen und seine Ängste. Selten hat man sich einem Autor so nahe gefühlt wie während der Lektüre dieses Bekenntnisses.

Genres: German Literature

120 pages, Paperback

First published March 17, 2014

About the author

The former writer of advertising copy and taxi driver emerged with his 1998 debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw. The novel describes the life of chess master Carl Schlechter. The book received several awards and has been translated into other languages, but did not make it onto the bestseller lists. The novel has autobiographical aspects: Thomas Glavinic played his first chess game at the age of five and in 1987 he achieved second place in the Austrian chess rankings for his age group.

The novel Herr Susi (Mr. Susi) followed in 2000. Written in hard prose, it is a statement against the football business, and received mainly negative reviews from the critics. In 2001, the criminal novel Der Kameramörder (The Camera Murderer) (awarded the Friedrich-Glauser-Prize at the Criminale) was published and was enthusiastically celebrated by the feuilletons due to its criticism of the media. In 2004, Glavinic succeeded in convincing both critics (no. 1 on the ORF critics best list) and readers (no. 1 on the Austrian bestseller list) with his satiric development-novel Wie man leben soll (How to Live), written from the perspective of the indefinite "one". In August 2006, the novel Die Arbeit der Nacht (The Work of the Night) was released and scored no. 1 on the critic's list again in the same month. His novel, Das bin doch ich (That's Me), appeared in summer of 2007 and was nominated for the German Book Prize. It made it onto the short list, a selection of six of the twenty authors originally chosen.

Thomas Glavinic is married and lives with his wife and son in Vienna.

Reviews

[Christian Müller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ohne das finale Kapitel mindestens ein Stern mehr. Interessante Infos und Hintergründe zu Autor, Büchern und Schreibprozess.