The Pension Eva

Pension Eva (original title La pensione Eva ) is a literary work, an autobiographical novel and an educational novel by Andrea Camilleri , originally written in the Sicilian language and published in Italy in 2006 by the Mondadori publishing house . It was published in 2008 in a translation by Moshe Kahn in Germany.

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The Pension Eva is the local brothel in a three-story and just restored villa in vigata (at Camilleri fictitious place name for Porto Empedocle in Sicily ). Here Nenè, with his friends Ciccion and Jacolino, experiences his youth, as it is the only environment that allows him to read books in peace . The action takes place in the 1940s, when the Second World War raged in Italy and Europe and Sicily was hit by bombers . After Jacolino's father takes over the brothel, the boys always get the opportunity to stay there on Mondays (on the rest day) and to listen to the stories of the 'employees' and to eat with them. Since the workforce changes every two weeks, they keep learning new life stories.

Reviews

• Spiegel Online : His prose is as sparkling as Prosecco: This also applies to the novel “Die Pension Eva”, which the Sicilian bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, 82, published two years ago in Italy and which has now been published in German. Camilleri writes in a short epilogue that “fortunately” one could “not classify this book exactly” in: Learning in the brothel. [4]

• HR-online : War raged in Sicily in the 1940s. What begins in a mysterious way for Nenè - sexuality, devotion to literature, life itself - threatens to suffocate under the rubble. And yet there is a force that lies like a breath over the bombed city and enchants everything. Love. [5]

• Literaturkritik.de : The book is too harmless to really move you, too superficial to really tell something about the time, as Camilleri has already done in his previous books. That's a shame, because the author is really just bubbling over with stories, invented and true - who can tell the difference. But in “Pension Eva” he lacks the narrative discipline to properly link everything with history. [6]

expenditure

• Die Pension Eva , Kindler Verlag , ISBN 978-3-463-40509-4
• La pensione Eva , Mondadori , Milan 2006, ISBN 88-04-55434-7
• Die Pension Eva , audio book with Gerd Wameling , Argon Verlag , ISBN 978-3-86610-492-1

Web links

• The Pension Eva at Rowohlt Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welt.de , accessed on April 2, 2010 [1]
2. ^ Rowohlt Verlag , accessed on April 2, 2010 [2]
3. ↑ Leseberater.de, accessed 2 April 2010 [3]