The stairs (novel)
The stairs is a novel by the author Thomas Wiedling . The book was published by btb Verlag in 2006 .
action
The psychodrama describes the story of a family during the post-war period in Germany after 1945. 15 years after a terrible incident in their childhood, the family members come together again to bury their mother. The night the accident happened was never discussed. On the day of the funeral, however, the true events come to light, and each of the siblings tells from their own perspective what happened.
reception
Critic voices describe Wiedling's work as a “disturbing psychodrama”, “precise family portrait” and “bitter moral image”. Thomas Wiedling succeeds in captivating his readers while he kidnaps them into a world of assumptions and premonitions.
Matthias Politycki said of his colleague's book:
“It's not easy for a writer to go from experimental writing to narrator. Thomas Wiedling did it. "
literature
- Thomas Wiedling: The stairs . btb Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-73406-1 .
swell
- ↑ The stairs. In: Ebay Catalog. Retrieved October 9, 2009 .
- ↑ The stairs. (No longer available online.) In: Sozialprojekte.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 9, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
