Jacob decides to love
Jacob decides to love is a novel by the Swiss writer and psychologist Catalin Dorian Florescu .
background
The novel deals with the story of the Obertin family based on the life story of Jacob Obertin, a Danube Swabian from a village in the Banat . For more than three hundred years, starting with the Thirty Years' War in Lorraine, the story of the family is told in flashbacks and from changing narrative perspectives until the 1950s.
reception
The book was well received by the majority of literary critics. In the FAZ, Elke Heidenreich pays tribute to the “narrative force and the sensual language” and counts the author among the most important German-speaking authors of the present. Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger praises the "brilliant narrator" in the NZZ , while the reviewer of the SZ notes the author's tendency towards "folklore and kitsch" and describes the book as "flat and thoughtlessly constructed".
Prizes and awards
- 2011 Swiss Book Prize
- 2012 Eichendorff Literature Prize for the author's complete works
expenditure
- Catalin Florian Florescu: Jacob decides to love.
- Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-61267-1 .
- Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-14180-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ FAZ of March 12, 2011.
- ↑ NZZ of March 3, 2011.
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 5, 2011.
- ↑ Schwäbische.de