Goetzens pictures
Goetzens Bilder is a novel by Alan Isler . The original edition, entitled Kraven Images , was published in 1996 by Bridge Works, New York . The German translation by Heidi Zerning was published by Berlin Verlag in 1998 .
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The main character of the book is Nicholas Marcus Goetzen, a lecturer in English literature at a New York college. The novel consists of fragmentary reviews of the life of the Goetzen family and a continuous storyline in two parts. The first part takes place in New York in the beginning of spring 1974, the second in London in the middle to the end of spring 1974.
The book begins with the following verses:
- Oh! Only delusion is dearly dear:
- Airy meat for the mind.
- The spirit man thus becomes a harung
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For lack of live food.
- Nicolas Goetzen, Picobello
After a brief audition in Leeds in 1941, in which a turbulent Jewish funeral is described, the action begins again in 1974 in New York. Nicholas Marcus Goetzens is a lecturer in English literature and is currently introducing Macbeth to a small group of students . He is exposed to the look under the skirt of the student Antonia Anstruther, because she does not wear panties and always sits provocatively directly across from him. Furthermore, he is continually harassed by an elderly listener named Feibelmann who thinks he has evidence that shows that the historical Merlin was a Jew. Goetzen then flees into the arms of his lover, with whom he has been cheating on her husband for two years now, who lives two floors above him and whom he likes to mock with short poems:
- Poore-Moody, a petit-point sticker
- With testicles even smaller than clickers
- Pumped his wife
- With his body
- To Goetzen, the great - refreshing man.
However, when Goetzen is seduced the following night by almost seventy-year-old Diotima von Hoden, professor for medieval love poetry from Heidelberg , with the help of a love potion consisting of a mixture of various hallucinogenic mushrooms , Goetzen's world begins to go awry.
Book editions
- Goetzens pictures. Novel. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8270-0257-5 .
- Goetzens pictures. Novel. DTV, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-12813-5 .