Pacific exile
Pazifik Exil is a novel by Michael Lentz from 2007. It was published by S. Fischer and was placed on the "longlist" for the 2007 German Book Prize .
content
The novel deals with artists who fled into American exile from the Third Reich, such as Bertolt Brecht , Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann , Franz Werfel and Arnold Schönberg . Their life situation at that time is described in the form of internal monologues.
Reviews
The reviewer Nicole Henneburg from the Frankfurter Rundschau found the company “risky” and “ambitious” with regard to the choice of material and found that the novel did not really deliver what it promised. Nevertheless, Henneburg discovered amusing places for them. Likewise Christoph Bartmann from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , who was far more enthusiastic and spoke of a "language event". Manuel Karasek from the taz , on the other hand, got bored while reading: “There has never been so much high spirits between two book covers,” he said ironically. In Die Zeit, Helmut Böttiger even denied the work being great literature. Rather, it would have the "style of magazine journalism: celebrities private". The reviewers of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , on the other hand, identified a “great” or “impressive” novel without any restrictions.
Others
The novel is largely based on historical sources, which are sometimes even reproduced in full. Thematically, it is related to the author's radio play EXIT, originally broadcast in 2005 , which was created in collaboration with the then private secretary Thomas Manns . Pazifik Exil also exists in a radio play version by the author.