The peacock (Bogdan)
The Peacock is a novel by Isabel Bogdan published in 2016 . In the social satire, people of different social origins collide in a mansion in the Scottish Highlands .
content
Lady and Lord McIntosh own a mansion in the Highlands and occasionally rent rooms to maintain the house. In late autumn, a private bank in London is planning to hold a team building seminar in seclusion. The encounter in this setting of the British upper class with the bankers, a seminar leader, the pragmatic domestic servants and several animals develops a comedic dynamic. The eponymous peacock , which reacts aggressively to everything blue, is presented as “crazy” at the beginning and runs through the work as a leitmotif in order to repeatedly initiate bizarre developments.
reception
The “light-footed surprise bestseller of the year” ( taz ) was reviewed in all important feature sections: Der Spiegel summed up: “The coherent atmosphere beats the hangers of the plot.”, Die Zeit stated: “It is a question of humor whether one overcomes group dynamic slapstick amused. "The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote:" Isabel Bogdan writes unobtrusively smugly, entire passages are read again and again as if she had raised an eyebrow while writing, 'very British', so to speak. "The book sold in 2016 more than 50,000 times.
expenditure
- Isabel Bogdan: The peacock. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-462-04800-1
- Isabel Bogdan: The peacock. Insel , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-458-36297-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5318789/
- ↑ Felix Bayer: Highland Comedy: When the peacock is too comfortable. In: Spiegel Online . February 27, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Markus Clauer: "The Peacock": Quirky Lord . In: The time . No. 13/2016 ( online ).
- ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article207059849/Der-Pfau-Britischer-Humor-in-schottischen-Highlands.html
- ↑ http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/buchmarkt-der-beststeller-code.976.de.html?dram:article_id=369765