Paratuga returns
Paratuga returns is the title of a book by Jürg Federspiel . It was first published by Luchterhand in 1973 .
content
Paratuga Returns is a collection of four short stories and one drama text. A literary figure called Paratuga appears, who is referred to as a "half-friend". It is characteristic of this type of person that they want to enjoy both the luck and bad luck of the other person. The literary critic Dieter Bachmann sees Paratuga as an alter ego of the author.
Hitler's daughter
The story takes place in a Chinese laundry in New York. Federspiel's fictional half-friend Paratuga introduces Emily, a stationery saleswoman, as 'Hitler's daughter'. When Federspiel interviews Emily, she explains that the meeting of her future parents was indirectly due to Hitler.
An earthquake in my family
Federspiel ponders a quote that says the longer you are from a past earthquake, the closer you are to the next. He also discusses it with his half-friend Paratuga in San Francisco. When he returned to Switzerland, Federspiel found in his mailbox the reminders from the University Library of Basel for the seismological books he had borrowed. Shortly afterwards, an earthquake struck the United States.
The Turk
In a conversation with Paratuga, Federspiel comes back to a series of murders in Switzerland. A Turk there had tickled several old women to death.
Paratuga returns
Paratuga presents his plans for a script. After first wanting to make a film about cannibalism, he has now decided to portray an old man in Albuquerque who grows watermelons in his garden just so that they can steal the children from the neighborhood.
Paratuga GmbH
In a dramatic text, the fictional character Paratuga talks to a Mr. Heim about topics from the tabloid press. A son Heim dies shortly afterwards. Paratuga, Guyan and Anna, a relative of the dead man, meet in a hotel room. “ Paratuga : The people want football, crossword puzzles or war. Therefore any policy is right. Anna : Why is the death of my brother-in-law so indifferent to me? Paratuga : Miserable driver. "
criticism
“Paratuga, that much is clear, is a riddle for which there is no answer, not even for the author Jürg Federspiel; but we are not used to such puzzles. As readers, we are used to questioning a text until we have 'understood' it, which is why we are resisted by prose in which comprehension quickly reaches its limits. But it is precisely the experience of this insurmountability that Federspiel offers in his Paratuga. "
literature
expenditure
- Jürg Federspiel: Paratuga returns . Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1973 (first edition), ISBN 3-472-86338-2 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürg Federspiel: Paratuga returns . Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1973, p. 9
- ↑ Dieter Bachmann: Everyday Apocalypse . In: The time . No. 11/1974 ( online ).
- ↑ Jürg Federspiel: Paratuga returns . Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1973, p. 115
- ↑ Dieter Bachmann: Everyday Apocalypse . In: The time . No. 11/1974 ( online ).