The House (Maier)
Das Haus is a novel by Andreas Maier that was published by Suhrkamp in December 2011 . The author is thus continuing his planned eleven-volume series of novels, which he began the year before with Das Zimmer . The focus of Das Haus is his family's newly built house in 1970 in the Barbaraviertel in Friedberg (Hesse) .
Structure and content
The novel consists of the two main chapters “INSIDE” (pp. 7–92) and “OUTSIDE” (pp. 93–165). These are each divided into five sub-chapters, which thematically mostly revolve around a subject (e.g. the course of a school day, the family breakfast, the bike tours in the Barbaraviertel).
Unlike the previous novel Das Zimmer , which focused on Uncle J., this novel is directly autobiographical. The author recapitulates his first years of life up to elementary school age. Above all, he describes his discomfort in social situations, be it with the family at the breakfast table, in kindergarten or at school. His dislike of crowds of people went so far that he didn't have to go back after a disastrous first day in kindergarten. His fearful behavior was paired with the globus syndrome (the feeling of having a lump in his throat), which continued to bother him when he entered elementary school and led to a large number of absent days: “The image of my fear and all of my former days Days, like a painting by Brueghel, it lies in front of me, the schoolyard and the students and the teachers and the school. "
expenditure
- Andreas Maier: The house . Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42266-3 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 25.4 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 33.1" E