Fire (noll)
Fire is a novel by Chaim Noll that was published by Verbrecher Verlag in 2010 .
action
As a result of the destruction of an unspecified German city by a fire of unknown cause, numerous survivors are on the run. The novel accompanies a group of around 15 people on a day-long walk through a forest. This group includes people of different religious, social and national origins, such as a bishop, a priest critical of the church, a Jewish businesswoman, an Italian with her grandson, a homeless student, a state secretary a. D. and a police council.
During the march there were numerous conflicts within the group, some of which were verbal and some with the use of force. The situation is viewed from the perspective of the various actors, and there are always reflections on various aspects of social coexistence. Contacts with criminals trying to exploit the disaster situation temporarily split the group spatially. The reader gets an insight into different ways of adapting groups of people and individuals to a situation without legal protection and public order.
When they reach the edge of the disaster area, the group has already lost some members at this point, they are sent to a camp together with other survivors. Psychological examinations are carried out there, which quickly turn out to be part of a kind of brainwashing , the aim of which is to prevent any information about the disaster from reaching the outside world. Both state institutions and the media are silent about the wiping out of an entire city. The members of the group are initially outraged by this amount of lies, but mostly adapt more or less quickly to the "time after".
At various points in the novel, passages from the Bible , especially from the Old Testament, are quoted.
expenditure
- Noll, Chaim: Feuer Verbrecher Verlag, 2010