Mick Jagger's kidneys
The Kidneys by Mick Jagger (Italian original title: I reni di Mick Jagger ), also published under the German title Nothing but Life , is an autobiographical and at the same time the first novel by the Italian writer Rocco Fortunato , which was published in Italy in 1999. The German version was published by Goldmann Verlag in 2001 .
Content and style
The novel deals with the life of the Italian Rocco Fortunato, who has to change his life due to chronic kidney failure . The author describes autobiographically and as a first-person narrator his own medical history from the time of the first diagnosis to the failure of the kidney, the experiences in dialysis and later life with a donor kidney . His concern for his own life with the numerous difficulties arising from the kidney disease are in the foreground, but at the same time he also deals with his relationship with his very religious parents as well as his friends and especially partners. Important people besides himself are his girlfriend Tania, from whom he separated in the course of his illness, as well as his future girlfriend Barbara, whom he already met when he was still playing as the guitarist of a heavy metal band . Fortunato also portrays other friends and patients whom he meets as part of his treatment, especially Michele and Farini, who died in 1999 and to whom he dedicated the book .
The style is narrative and in many places very ironic despite the very serious content. According to the back of the paperback, it was commented on by various daily newspapers - for example by the Corriere della Sera ( one is moved, one is shocked, and one dies of laughter ) or the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ( relaxed, ironic, always honest - a moving one History. ).
The relationship of the novel to the eponymous Mick Jagger is shown right at the beginning of the novel after Fortunato had received his first diagnosis:
“I heard the Stones and didn't feel like I had anything better to do. [...] Well, it doesn't matter, as far as you can tell, Mick Jagger's kidneys were working perfectly, and the Stones played like gods "
Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones do not play a role in the later plot.
expenditure
I reni di Mick Jagger was published in Italy in 1999 and was published in Germany in 2001 under the name Nothing but Life , and in 2003 the paperback edition was published under the title The Kidneys by Mick Jagger .
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I reni di Mick Jagger. 1999
- Nothing but life. (Translation by Ulrich Hartmann ) Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2001. ISBN 978-3-442-30942-9
- Mick Jagger's kidneys. (Translation by Ulrich Hartmann) Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 978-3-442-54199-7