Leise Singende Frauen

by Wilhelm Genazino

German

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Wilhelm Genazino was a German journalist and author.

In the 1960s, he studied German, philosophy and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He worked as a journalist until 1965. During this time, he worked, inter alia, for the satirical magazine Pardon and co-edited the magazine Lesezeichen. Since 1970 he has been working as a freelance author. In 1977 he achieved a breakthrough as a serious writer with his trilogy "Abschaffel". In 1990 he became a member of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. After living in Heidelberg for a long time, Genazino moved to Frankfurt in 2004. That same year he was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize, the most prestigious award for German literature.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

06.12.2014 Genazino deckt meine linke Leseflanke bei der Lektüre Musils. Genazino kann ich immer lesen und auf ihn kann ich mich immer verlassen.
14.12.2014 Von wegen ich kann mich immer auf ihn verlassen - ausgelesen habe ich ihn lange vor der geplanten Zeit, begleiten hätte er mich sollen und vorgedrängt hat er sich. Ich gehöre ja zu denen die meinen dass Bücher sich ihre Leser suchen. Warum sonst sollte ein provinzieller Niederösterreicher zu Hohler, Zopfi oder eben Genazino finden? Diese Autoren eint das liebevolle, genaue Beobachten des Alltäglichen ohne zu Überhöhen. Ich liebe diese zärtlichen, genauen Texte.

[Simmi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A man strolls through a big city. He has lost an unremarkable seeming, worthless but loved object, a treasure to him. He can't find the object but instead he encounters other objects given up by people or neglected that take place of the lost object and temporarily become a fetish. He becomes aware of the fact that the strolling is only a complaisance for the hidden occurences of poetry that the narrator seeks.