Massacre in the moon
Massacre in the Moon is the title of the first novel by Jürg Federspiel . It was first published in 1963 by Piper Verlag .
content
The novel is set in a small Swiss town in the 1950s and is written from the perspective of an architecture student who wants to reconstruct the story of a woman named Anja. The narrator's friends are Drexel, son of a shopkeeper, Manfred Pareim and Katu. The narrator goes to a party with them. We learn that Anja is married to Balmont, who she met in Berlin after the end of the war. The plot of the novel extends from summer to spring of the following year, the influence of the seasons on the mood of the protagonists is described in detail.
reception
The literary scholar Ingeborg Quaas notes: "His only novel so far, in which [Federspiel] attacks the brutal egoism of the citizen during the industrial boom in Switzerland in the 1950s, he calls" Massacre in the Moon "(1963), because" mine is mine. " Compatriots appeared as inhabitants of the moon ... people who had suffered no more from history and who considered the suffering to be a psychological luxury or a problem for foreigners. "In contrast to the two short stories, this book was hardly known in Switzerland The author explains this "failure": "The main reason why the book didn't go down in Switzerland was because it was too realistic. 'Massacre in the Moon' is ugly and evil. "
literature
expenditure
- Jürg Federspiel: massacre in the moon . Piper, Munich 1963 (first edition)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingeborg Quaas: Post Comment. In: Jürg Federspiel: Oranges in front of your window. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977, p. 189