An umbrella for that day
An umbrella for this day is a novel by Wilhelm Genazino , published in 2001 by Carl Hanser in Munich.
With the quiet book, which became a bestseller (not least thanks to the positive review in the Literary Quartet in August 2001), his author suddenly became known to a wider public, although at the age of sixty he could already look back on a long career as an author.
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As a test runner for English luxury low shoes, the hero of the novel travels around town a lot. He keeps meeting old friends from before and has plenty of time to look at the world.
→ Frankfurt am Main in literature. Wilhelm Genazino An umbrella for this day.
Reviews
The book received an unanimous positive response from contemporary critics. Anita Pollak from Wiener Kurier judged the work: “Genazino skilfully portrays this bizarre existence in an old-fashioned way. Quietly ironic, without obscurity, without fear, to describe old-fashioned feelings such as melancholy, without fear of slowness, of boredom. This brilliant narrator has nothing to do with action and speed. The fact that this silent book sells a lot is one of the little miracles of the noisy market ”.
credentials
- ↑ The poeticization of everyday life. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 16, 2006.
- ^ Wilhelm Genazino: "An umbrella for this day". Reviews by the Perlentaucher , [2001].
- ↑ Anita Pollak: Idleness is the beginning of all virtue. Review of the novel An umbrella for the day. Courier , September 28, 2001.