All about Sally
Everything about Sally is a novel by the Austrian writer Arno Geiger , published by Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich in 2010 . The title character Sally is a woman in her early 50s who stands between her husband and a lover. The novel won the Vorarlberg Literature Prize in 2010 .
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In 1977, the then 26-year-old ethnologist Alfred Fink and the 21-year-old embassy employee Sally met in Cairo . Alfred, who comes from rural Schenkenfelden , is infatuated with Sally, who is equally beautiful and exciting. For them, the shy and lazy Alfred is a welcome haven after numerous affairs. 31 years later they are both married, have three children and live in Vienna . Alfred is a museum curatorbecome a teacher, Sally. Their relationship has long since frozen into routine. While Alfred is content with withdrawing from the world, tending to his illnesses and keeping a diary, Sally is always looking for outbreaks of marriage that she finds in extramarital affairs.
The couple had to return early from a hiking holiday to Vienna due to a break-in in their house. Above all, Alfred throws the intrusion into his privacy and the destructiveness of the thieves - even his diaries were vandalized - off course. Sally, on the other hand, drives his self-pity into the arms of her neighbor Erik, in whom she rediscovers the missing tension and eroticism. But the triangular relationship she hoped for between her lover and husband was destroyed overnight when Erik left his wife Nadja - not because of Sally, but because of a young Russian woman. Sally, who doesn't want to show her pain, becomes irritable and uncomfortable. A coworker's funeral finally gives her the outlet she needs to mourn recent events.
In an insert, Alfred reports his view of the marriage with Sally from the first person perspective . For him it is still the happiness of his life, even if - as he describes it - a lot of bad luck has recently piled up on the luck of the first few years. He knows that his wife doesn't love him the way he loves her and that she has been cheating on him for a long time, and yet - as he finds out in a mind game inspired by the novel Replay - he would want to live his entire life the same way all over again, only to end up to stay by Sally's side. After Sally has recovered from her disappointment, she too begins to turn to her husband again. Not every moment, but in the long run she still loves him. And while he is handicapped by a leg in plaster after falling down the stairs, she dances for him as on the day they moved into the common house.
Adaptations
In 2012, Südwestrundfunk produced a radio play based on an adaptation by Leonhard Koppelmann . The main roles were spoken by Stephanie Eidt and Matthias Brandt . Markus Hering read in the novel as an audio book.
expenditure
- Arno Geiger: Everything about Sally . Hanser, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23484-0 .
- Arno Geiger: Everything about Sally . Dtv, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-14018-8 .
See also
Web links
- Review notes on Everything about Sally at perlentaucher.de
- Review of Everything about Sally in Rheinischer Merkur from February 11, 2010 by Michaela Schmitz.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arno Geiger receives Vorarlberg Literature Prize at ORF Vorarlberg , July 14, 2010
- ↑ Everything about Sally in the ARD audio game database.