Declaration of love (novel)
Declaration of love is a novel by Michael Lentz . It was published in 2003 by S. Fischer Verlag .
content
After separating from his wife - ostensibly because of someone else - the first-person narrator on a winter train journey through Germany thinks about the real reasons for the failure of the relationship and love.
Reviews
Susanne Messmer from the taz spoke of an “admirable urgency” of the text. The problem of still wrestling something new from the love theme is the engine that makes this “furious text so agile”. Nicole Henneberg from Frankfurter Rundschau compared the novel with Thomas Bernhard's ranting tirades . Despite a few “platitudes” that she thinks she can identify, she states an overall erotic power of language that carries the text to the end. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung called the work “triumphant” and “great literature”. For Friedhelm Rathjen von der Zeit , on the other hand, there was a “big yawn” while reading, after the beginning of the book had still relatively excited him.
classification
The book is the first novel by the poet and sound artist Lentz.
Secondary literature
- Excursus on Michael Lentz. The love language declaration. In: Norbert W. Schlinkert : Wanderer in Absurdistan: Novalis, Nietzsche, Beckett, Bernhard and all the rest. An investigation into the appearance of the absurd in prose . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2005. ISBN 978-3-8260-3185-4 . Pp. 114-124. With notes by Michael Lentz from the correspondence with Norbert W. Schlinkert (in the footnotes).
Single receipt
- ↑ Michael Lentz - declaration of love. In: perlentaucher.de. 2003, accessed September 7, 2015 .