Dimensions
Dimensions (in the original Dimensions , 2009) is a short story by Alice Munro , which deals with the possibilities of psychological survival after an act of violence. The story was first published with the title in the singular ( Dimension , 2006).
After her husband, who had suppressed her for a long time, murdered their three children after an escape attempt by her, Doree moved away, now calls herself by her middle name, Fleur, in her new environment, and does a job that involves a lot of routine that she doesn't have to talk to people. She wants to cope with the loss of her children. Possible solutions are mainly shown to her from unexpected sources and towards the end of the story she seems to have looked for a solution herself. The work comprises 17 sections, the sixteenth of which is by far the longest. It is u. a. reproduced the text of two letters addressed to Doree without salutation and which seem to have been written by her husband and father of their three children, who said he was in a mental hospital, and Doree said something about his trial of a " Recognize yourself! “Reports. The end of the story is that Doree does not continue a bus ride as planned, but instead remains in the place where her help is urgently needed.
Doree is a young woman who frees herself from psychological dependence on a violent perpetrator, according to Gisela Ostwald, in the section "Violence, weakness and overcoming" in her review of the collection Too much luck in the star . This story, which tells of a father who murders all three of his daughters, is the most successful of the tape, says Verena Auffermann .
Editions and versions
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Dimensions is included in Too Much Happiness (2009), Munro's thirteenth collection of narratives that 2011 entitled Too much happiness has been published in German. The work in the English version from 2009 is about 30 pages long and is the more elaborated version of the 2006 version, which has been made readable free of charge by The New Yorker on the web, where it still has the title "Dimension" ( in the singular).
The two versions differ in that the book version from 2009 only contains 17 sections and not 20 sections as in the magazine version from 2006. This difference results from the fact that four sections have been merged and a section change has been added. Otherwise, there are only about 20 minor changes between one and the other version. The meaning is changed most clearly in a change from “It must be that there is another Dimension or maybe innumerable Dimensions, but what I know is that I have got access to whatever one they are in” (2006) to “what I know is that I have got across to ... "(2009). However, this could only have been a typographical oversight as a result of a correction program.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Ostwald, "Too much luck". Alice Munro writes life-wise short stories , stern.de , May 20, 2011.
- ↑ According to a review at perlentaucher.de on Auffermann's review of Too Much Luck in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on July 9, 2011.
- ↑ Alice Munro: Dimension , June 5, 2006 version in The New Yorker .
- ↑ Highlighting not in the original, but here to identify the change.