Oranges and deaths
Oranges and Death is a book by Jürg Federspiel . It was first published by Piper Verlag in 1961 and is Federspiel's first work.
content
Oranges and Death is a collection of eight short stories .
Calaveras and the Ravens
One day swallows fly through the window of a family home. The man who lives there fell in love with the wife of a colleague a few years ago who later died of stomach cancer. Since then he has been frustrated with his own wife. At the end, an explosion can be heard in the laundry room.
Oranges in front of her window
During the Second World War, a deserted Wehrmacht soldier hides in a French village. A resident signals to him with oranges in the window that there is no danger in sight. If there is danger, she takes it away. When the village was taken by French soldiers and the Americans, the resident disappeared and the deserter was lynched.
Dikurrante Bissifil Sifilaufirorum
Little Malli lives with her aunt because her father died of alcoholism. At the father's funeral, a gust of wind comes up, which first blows the skirts of the assembled ladies. When the mourners are all blown together, Malli begins to babble and is happy.
A report. At night
While on vacation in France, the narrator, who was just procrastinating the answer to a letter , met a girl in the moonlight and fell into ecstasy. He wrote the letter that night. When he sees the girl again the next morning, he first wants to put the letter in the mailbox. When it returned, it disappeared without a trace.
Outlook on an expedition
Malaan, a young man hitchhikes around midnight. After being asked to drive, he has an accident. The inmates take him to an inn and provide him with coffee and meat loaf.
The Monderau Chronicle
The name of the fictional Swiss health resort Monderau reminds the narrator of the moon, in fact it is derived from moon diamonds . A spa guest tells curious stories from the Second World War.
Death of a foal
A foal jumps into a barbed wire fence and has to be euthanized by the vet. The horse owner's twelve-year-old son then had nightmares at night.
The hitchhiker
A hitchhiker walks along a Swiss pass road in the glowing midday sun. In the heat he becomes delusional and dreams that a car that he tried to stop has run over him. When a car finally stops and the driver asks if he should take it with him, the hitchhiker defiantly runs away.
criticism
"Federspiel's narrative technique, which fluctuates between factual reporting and complicated surrealism, is quite original, but some of his stories are all too strenuously brought close to death."
literature
expenditure
- Jürg Federspiel: Oranges and Death . Munich. Piper 1961 (first edition).
- Jürg Federspiel: Oranges and Death . Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp 1985, ISBN 3-518-37655-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: Jürg Federspiel: "Oranges and Tode". In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1962 ( online - Mar. 14, 1962 ).