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Who is this hero who beckons the reader to join him on his long, strange trip? Maybe he’s a Grinch-like misanthrope or perhaps an anti-social introvert. In any case, he encounters someone who is going to ensure he finds equilibrium in the world and who is going to enrich his inner and outer world during the most perplexing time of his life. He gets to taste the meaning of what it’s like to ponder, to avoid, to long for, and to give importance to someone else. As for his long, strange trip, it’s guaranteed to drag the reader transiting, skipping and leaping from reality to dreamland, from the past to the present and future, and from dialogue to one’s inner voice. *** “I’m all mess...
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Strictly speaking, ‘Sweet Chocolate’, first part of the trilogy together with ‘Ramblings’ and ‘Towards the End of the Night’, is one of the countless variations of Billy Wilder’s ‘boy meets girl’. But it’s not that simple – is the beginning the end or the end the beginning? There are time leaps, flashbacks, changes of perspective and even overlaps caused by them. Reality, dreams and prophecies, inner monologue, dialogues and chats. Helpful, puzzling or completely missing chapter headings … Sounds like a labyrinth and hopeless confusion – but surprisingly it’s not at all. The narrative is entertaining and comprehensible. A lightness pervades the short novel, although at the center is a difficult, contradictory, multi-layered, self-centered, failed spirit who, after too long a period of seclusion, attempts to find his place again in the midst of life. As you read, all the little pieces of the puzzle fall into place. And with parts 2 and 3, which are both sequel and supplement, the big pieces too.
Before the readers of this book are 25 interviews with renowned poets from all over the world, of all generations. The book Modern Talks on Poetry was created as a result of my journalistic work in the period from 2019 to 2022. What particularly inspired me to publish this book is the idea that poetry played a very significant role during the pandemic, primarily in a psychological sense, because many people turned to writing poetry during the lockdown, as a kind of creative therapy. With this book, I would like to pay tribute to poetry as a unique form of artistic and linguistic expression and to all the poets of this world.
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Es gibt jetzt Mütter, die ihre adrett gekleideten Kinder auf die Wangen küssen und zur Schule schicken, den Duft frischen Brotes, den dampfenden Teekessel, unter dem Schnee erblühte Blumen. Keimende Samen, Fohlen, die sich auf Rennen vorbereiten, Küken, die gefüttert werden. In alten Filmen, in denen Freiluftkinos vorkommen, gibt es schöne Frauen mit Hüten, denen schmalbärtige, elegante Männer die Tür aufhalten. Irgendwo gibt es ganz bestimmt Deans Lieder, die jemand hört. Es gibt das Gestern, das Heute, vielleicht auch das Morgen. Es gibt Blumentöpfe, die an den Fenstern von Erkerhäusern gedankenverloren in den Himmel schauen, es gibt Tulum-Käse, Trauben-Raki, schwebende Ballons. Es gibt Doppeldecker Cabriobusse, schicke Schiffe, die mit den Delfinen um die Wette fahren, wehmütige Züge, die sich auf ihren Gleisen ausruhen. Es gibt Menschen, die unter uns sind und solche, die nicht mehr sind. Es gibt Schuhputzer, fliegende Händler, die Simit, Fisch oder Lutscher verkaufen. Einen Neuanfang, indem man alles vergisst oder ohne irgend etwas zu vergessen, gibt es bestimmt auch.
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