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A Certain Koslowski

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Is it true, someone asks, that regardless of what one asks you, one always receives a wrong answer? That s right! says Koslowski. Koslowski is everyone and no one, a tragic figure who stumbles through life in resigned bewilderment at the trials and bizarre coincidences thrown in his path. These brief prose pieces have a style and attraction all their own, by turns wonderfully surreal and laugh-out-loud funny. With strange and beautiful illustrations by Hartmut Eïng, this new edition, 24 years on, includes brand-new pieces about Koslowski's life, loves and losses, alongside the classic texts from the original edition. Koslowski swears, cross my heart and hope to die, that many years ago he personally met Huckleberry Finn. But he is merely a literary character! someone protests. So am I, says Koslowski. Secret Agent That Koslowski had been employed by a not exactly friendly foreign power as a secret agent a few decades ago, was known to just everyone he had anything to do with at the time. Whenever he showed up among his acquaintances, the topic of conversation was, as a precaution, changed and people spoke about the weather. But what no one suspected was that Koslowski s mission in fact consisted exclusively in finding out what people had to say about the weather.

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Published January 1, 1992

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Michael Augustin

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Augustin hat in Kiel und Dublin Anglistik, Anglo-Irische Literatur, Volkskunde und Irish Folklore studiert. Ab 1976, als in der Schweiz sein erster Band mit Epigrammen erschien, hat er als freier Mitarbeiter Beiträge für den Hörfunk von Radio Telefís Éireann und Radio Bremen geschrieben. Seit 1979 ist er Rundfunkredakteur und Autor bei Radio Bremen und dort z.Zt. zuständig für das sonntägliche Feature und die Lyriksendung „Fundsachen“. Er ist Ko-Direktor des Internationalen Literaturfestivals Poetry on the Road in Bremen.

Augustin ist auch als freier Autor, Übersetzer und Zeichner tätig. Er schreibt Gedichte, Kurzprosa, Kurzgeschichten sowie Dramolette. Seine Bücher sind ins Italienische, Polnische, Spanische, Griechische, Irische, Niederländische und Englische übersetzt worden.

Für etliche Jahre war er Mitarbeiter der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung und schreibt und zeichnet für Literaturzeitschriften im In- und Ausland, wie PN Review (England), Sirena (USA), Cyphers (Irland), Carapace (Südafrika), Tratti (Italien), Glossen (USA), die horen und die Literarische Welt (Deutschland).

Er hat auf zahlreichen internationalen Poesiefestivals gelesen. Zudem gründete er 1978 das erste Literaturtelefon Deutschlands in Kiel. Diese Einrichtung besteht noch heute.

Er ist Mitglied im Verband deutscher Schriftsteller sowie in der deutschen und irischen Sektion von PEN International.

Augustin ist seit 1988 mit der indischen Dichterin Sujata Bhatt verheiratet.

1977 Friedrich-Hebbel-Preis
1982 Kurt-Magnus-Preis
1984 Honorary Fellow in Writing an der University of Iowa
1986 Amsterdam-Stipendium der Stichting Culturele Uitwisseling
2003 Writer in Residence am Dickinson College
2004 Gastprofessor am Dickinson College
2006 Writer in Residence an der University of Bath
2009 Writer in Residence im Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island, Irland

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December 1, 2022
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Da saga "boas surpresas", a deambular entre o filosófico e o humorístico.


Da busca da verdade
A sua vida dedicada quase inteiramente à busca da verdade foi coroada por um grande fracasso. Mas nesse processo, segundo Koslowski, ele terá descoberto "uma divina e brilhante gama das mais divertidas e bem elaboradas mentiras", as quais, como afirmou, "fizeram com que, ao fim e ao cabo, a vida realmente valesse a pena."
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De quando foi agente secreto
O facto de Koslowski, há décadas, ter trabalhado como agente secreto para um governo estrangeiro hostil, era conhecidos por quase todos os que, à época, se relacionavam com ele. Assim, todas as vezes que ele surgia no círculo da conversa, os conhecidos por precaução, mudavam de assunto e começavam a falar sobre. tempo. Mas o que ninguém suspeita era que a missão de Koslowski consistia em, justamente, descobrir o que as pessoas pensavam sobre o tempo.
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May 11, 2013
He just tries to hard to be ironic. Some parts are smart but some of them are just forced.
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