Leila Vennewitz Knihy

English, German (translation)

Svým výrazným antiklerikalismem způsobil román Klaunovy názory ihned po prvním vydání značný rozruch. Jeho břitký satirický osten je namířen proti všem etablovaným politickým a náboženským postojům a kritizuje pravici i levici, katolíky i evangelíky, ateisty i kapitalisty, a vůbec všechny vyznavače instrumentální moci a abstraktního společenského řádu. Hlavní protagonista románu, sedmadvacetiletý klaun Hans Schnier, je společenský outsider, který se brání všem druhům autoritární represe a snaží se uchovat si právo na sebeurčení a individuální svobodu. ...

The accidental reunion of two men, former schoolmates, and their wives in a lakeside resort leads to a comparison of memories, an awkward intimacy, and a moment of terrible, yet exhilarating liberation

The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm has heard claims that currywurst first appeared in Berlin in the 1950s, but he seems to recall having eaten it much earlier, as a boy in his native Hamburg, at a stand owned and operated by Lena Brücker. He decides to check it out. Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Brücker met, seduced and held captive a German deserter in Hamburg, in April, 1945, just before the war's end - that is the tastiest part. Timm draws gorgeous details from Lena's fine-grained recollections, and the pleasure these provide her and the reader supply the tale's real charm.