The fairytale aunt
The fairytale aunt is the title of a novel by Jürg Federspiel . It was first published in 1971 by Piper Verlag .
content
The novel Die Märchentante begins with a prologue that parodies the story of creation . This is followed by the actual narrative, which takes place in a Swiss pub around midnight and deals with the conversations between the waiter, Robert, a tie seller, Monalisa, Herostratos , Babler and the fairytale aunt Irma. During his work, the waiter reads a Maigret thriller by Georges Simenon . Civil defense signals can be heard from outside . The other guests ask the fairy tale aunt for a fairy tale, she tells the story of a married couple in which the husband throws one of the toothbrushes into the toilet. When the wife asks whose toothbrush it was, the husband says he will not reveal it. The woman kills her husband out of anger. Soon afterwards, the audience agreed that this story was not a fairy tale, the fairy tale aunt replied that this was not a fairy tale either, but reality. Afterwards, the guests eat asparagus and chat. Meanwhile, an apocalypse occurs in the city due to an atomic bomb . When the fairytale aunt leaves the pub, like Lot's wife , she freezes into a pillar of salt.
The plot of the narrative is repeatedly interrupted by poems , one-act plays and excerpts from the Simenon novel.
literature
expenditure
- Jürg Federspiel: The fairy tale aunt . Piper, Munich 1971 (first edition)
- Jürg Federspiel: The fairy tale aunt . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-518-37734-5