Zemlja crvenih stena
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- Author: Kappacher Walter
- Publisher: Futura publikacije
- ISBN: 9788671881531
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 84683
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Zemlja crvenih stena
Kappacher Walter
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Walter Kappacher: Land of Red Rocks
Already in the work *Palace of the Flies* (Nojzac, 2011), the Serbian reader had the opportunity to experience the paradoxical effect of Kappacher's prose: it acts, so to speak, by doing nothing, by what remains unsaid and by insisting on the secondary, and all of this is presented with careful restraint and a kind of "intoxicating" dynamism. What can be read of him as a man portrays him as a principled, modest and suave gentleman: like a bourgeois Handke with lower blood pressure. Since he was crowned with the Büchner prize only in 2009 - objectively the most important literary award in the German-speaking world - his admirers did not fail to cause a feeling of remorse in the rest of the audience. Totally unnecessary! V. Kapaher (1938), that tender literary plant, neither needs nor deserves the critics' grace. Because in his insistence on what is only incidental lies something offensive, which Martin Walser smelled by calling Kapaher's restraint "brutal". Understatement is his cunning strategy that is easy to overlook, just like the humor that comes from it and permeates his books like a fine capillary network that, as is known, crushes even the hardest rocks. Kapaher torpedoes the genre in which he moves on the given occasion (in this book, it is a travelogue) precisely with the precision with which he fulfills its formal requirements, while at the same time undermining its strengths on the content level. This can easily be called subversive mimicry - rebellion through a gesture of adaptation. What effect this "method" will cause depends on the occasion itself; for example, in *Land of Red Rocks*, the inexorable exhaustiveness in naming and describing geological formations - which will surely exhaust the reader - should on the one hand testify to the literary failure of Kapaher's protagonist, and on the other hand make the reader feel the physical effort he himself is exposed to in this endeavor of breaking through the labyrinth.
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- Author: Kappacher Walter
- Publisher: Futura publikacije
- Year of publication:2014
- Place of publication:Novi Sad
- Pages:142
- Dimensions:12.5x20.5 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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