Heaven and hell (stories)
Heaven and hell. Nine Stories (originally Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage , 2001) is the tenth collection of short stories by Alice Munro. It bears the dedication: "With gratitude to Sarah Skinner." The German translation is by Heidi Zerning and was published by S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main in 2004.
Works included
- Does he hate me, does he like me, does he love me, wedding (Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage)
- A floating bridge
- Heirlooms (Family Furnishings)
- Consolation (comfort)
- Nettles (nettles)
- Post and Beam
- What is Remembered
- Queenie (queenie)
- The bear climbed over the mountain (The Bear Came Over the Mountain)
Reviews
The English writer Antonia S. Byatt comments on Munro's stories in her work 'One sentence - and the whole world tips over. Why the Canadian master narrator writes novels in small format and hides the horrors behind the everyday ', in: Literaturen , 6 (2005), 03, pp. 39–40. In it she writes: “Most of these stories are sad - stories about accidents, about Alzheimer's disease, about the inevitable progression of disease.” She also finds: “In a strange way, all the stories in all of Alice Munro's books form a coherent narrative - they are remembered like parts of a great complete work. In the reader's memory they become blurred, even if the reader admires the perfect architecture of a particular story, the way in which strange things and events that seem to belong together are balanced and contrasted with one another. "
Mona Simpson writes: “Most living writers are not, most of the time, reading one another's work. They are considering the classics. They are consuming cookbooks, comics, self-help manuals, mysteries, pornography, Martha Stewart ”and other topics. Not so with Alice Munro's stories. "The highest compliment a critic can pay a short-story writer is to say that he or she is our Chekhov. More than one writer has made that claim for Alice Munro. "
Susanne Weingarten from Spiegel-online comments appreciatively: “Once again the Canadian Alice Munro proves herself to be a master of the small form with her new stories in 'Heaven and Hell'.” She thinks: “Her own stories are houses in which there is an infinite amount to discover there. From the outside they look simple and modest, but as soon as the reader enters, he is amazed to see that they are much, much larger inside than they appear from the outside. A new one opens behind every room, there are hidden corners and niches everywhere, and you can get lost in the corridors endlessly. They are wonderful houses full of secrets, and when you leave them you can see the world through their windows for a long time. "
literature
- Klaus P Stich, Munro's Grail Quest: The Progress of Logos , in: Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne (SCL / ÉLC) , Volume 32, Number 1 (2007). (Among other things to the work "Does he hate me, does he like me, does he love me, wedding")
- Héliane Ventura, The Skald and the Goddess: Reading “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro , in: Journal of the Short Story in English (JSSE) / Les cahiers de la nouvelle , n ° 55 (Autumn 2010).
Web links
- Suspicion of Sentiment. Alice Munro Reviews of Alice Munro on the London Review of Books
Individual evidence
- ↑ Table of Contents
- ↑ Antonia S. Byatt: Books of the Month: One sentence - and the whole world tips over ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at cicero.de, accessed on May 17, 2015.
- ↑ Mona Simpson: A Quiet Genius. Alice Munro is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years A Quiet Genius at theatlantic.com, accessed on May 17, 2015.
- ↑ Susanne Weingarten: Fiction: Mysterious Remainder at spiegel.de , accessed on May 17, 2015.
