Bastard (novel)
Drecksau (English original title: Filth , literally: "Dirt") is a novel by the British author Irvine Welsh .
action
The novel is told from the perspective of the fictional Edinburgh police officer Bruce Robertson. He is corrupt , addicted to cocaine and alcohol , and a person of miserable character . He regularly abuses his position of power for sexual violence and for intrigues against his colleagues. Among other things , he is guilty of murder , assault and rape, destroys the marriage of a colleague, molests his wife and has him arrested on false accusations. Many of his actions are intended to pave the way for a promotion; but often his aggression is an end in itself.
Despite his intrigues, Robertson does not get any closer to his goal - his life situation is getting more and more out of joint, to which he reacts in his own way with renewed violence. Eventually it is revealed that Robertson's colleagues knew about the racist murder he had committed and were covering him all along; with his aggression against them he prepared his own downfall. Even his suicide at the end of the novel is still an attack on the outside world - it is left to the survivors to live with the consequences of his deeds.
Tapeworm
Although the reader is already very close to Robertson's inner workings thanks to Robertson's first-person perspective , some things remain incomprehensible at first due to Robertson's limited ability for self-reflection . Here the author makes use of an unusual literary means: inserted into the plot are passages designed in experimental typography from the perspective of a tapeworm that grows in Robertson's digestive tract . At first only its outlines are shown, words and sentences are gradually added: the tapeworm develops a consciousness and an ego connected to Robertson, but not identical , which is soon clearly superior to that of its host and strongly criticizes him .
filming
The film was made in 2013, s. Bastard (film) .
literature
- Welsh, Irvine: bastard . German by Clara Drechsler and Harald Hellmann; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1999. ISBN 3-462-02866-9
- Welsh, Irvine: Filth . WW Norton & Company, 1998. ( ISBN 0393318680 )
Web links
- ↑ Filthy pig in the Internet Movie Database (English)