Love marks, scarlet
Love Marks, Scarlet Red is a letter novel by Feridun Zaimoglu from 2000, which he subtitled as "The New Sorrows of Young Ali". It is usually mentioned as the author's first novel.
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The young Serdar tries in vain for an erection on the beach of the Turkish Aegean Sea. He finds himself in a life crisis after his “women stories” got so out of control in his home town in Kiel that he had to flee to his parents' home. But in Turkey he soon began to establish relationships with the opposite sex. In letters to his friend Hakan, the ex Anke and his current lover Dina, the indecisive search of the Turk in Germany and Almancı in Turkey for his own identity and his own homeland becomes clear.
Reviews
Zaimoglu's first real novel (his early book, Scum, was also declared a novel) was largely well received. For the enthusiastic Hauke Hückstädt from the Frankfurter Rundschau , Zaimoglu had proven himself to be a real writer and not just an “enlightening documentarist” with the book “more than ever”. Cristina Nord from the daily newspaper , on the other hand, saw an “empty content” precisely because of the lack of a documentary approach, which did not prevent her from calling the work linguistically interesting and sometimes amusing. While Katharina Dobler from the weekly Die Zeit did not find the story authentic, Gabriele Killert's review of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung was full of enthusiasm and contained a comparison with Arno Schmidt . “Even if you haven't liked adolescent novels before, you won't be able to resist the charm of this book,” said Killert at the time. Christoph Bartman from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also discussed the work in a friendly manner and discovered a Zaimoglu that had become softer than Kanak Sprak - 24 discordant notes from the fringes of society . Agnes Hüfner in the Süddeutsche Zeitung liked the book, although it had critical points that would have made a slipping into an easy exercise.
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Andrea Gerk (NDR) sees Zaimoglu's first conception as a “modern minstrel” in the book in 2008, which is continued in the current novel Liebesbrand . The book was also staged as a radio play in 2001. Erdogan Atalay , Isabell Fischer and the author himself spoke here .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/3283.html
- ^ NDR Kultur , March 3, 2008: New books. Liebesbrand ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )