Tricks (Alice Munro)
Tricks. Eight Stories (original title Runaway , 2004) is the eleventh collection of short stories by Alice Munro .
The German translation by Heidi Zerning was first published in 2006 by S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main. In the paperback edition (6th edition 2013) the volume is 380 pages long. The original edition of Runaway is 335 pages.
reception
Runaway was awarded the Giller Prize in 2004.
Why the volume did not get the title of the first story outlier in the German edition is still an open question (for the time being here). The second, third and fourth of the stories are linked by the protagonist Juliet. Pedro Almodóvars used this “trilogy” very freely as the material for the script for his 2016 film Julieta .
In the cover story, Munro's strengths become clear: how the descriptions in detail and in the long shot complement each other, how the characters are observed but not criticized, how subliminal the participation remains so that readers can get involved, but not have to, and how refined they are A plot is constructed, the construction of which is imperceptible, says Tilman Spreckelsen , who in his article in the FAZ on the Nobel Prize for Alice Munro takes the cover story of this collection as an example.
Annette Traks, in her comprehensive review of the collection in The Huffington Post, also points out that characters are only characterized by their speech and action, or rather by their inaction. Traks sums up that it is beneficial how Munro relies on mature readers.
Jonathan Franzen says in his review of this volume for The New York Times that there are even better narratives in Runaway than The Bear Came Over the Mountain (1999/2001), because the works contained here are more daring, bloodier, deeper and broader .
content
- Outliers (runaway), p. 11
- Decision (chance), p. 80.
- Soon, p. 140.
- Silence, p. 200.
- Passion (Passion), S. 252nd
- Misconduct (Trespasses), p. 311.
- Tricks, p. 371.
- Forces (Powers), p. 424.
literature
- Mary Hawthorne: Disconnected Realities. In the Munro mold. In: London Review of Books . Vol. 27, No. 4, February 17, 2005, pp. 17-18. ( Beginning of article , accessed November 24, 2013)
- Annette Traks: Review "Tricks", Alice Munro (Nobel Prize for Literature 2013). on: huffingtonpost.de , October 31, 2013.
- Jonathan Franzen: Runaway: Alice's Wonderland. nytimes.com, November 14, 2004.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tilman Spreckelsen: Nobel Prize for Literature for Alice Munro. It's all about it, anytime. faz.net, October 11, 2013.
- ↑ Annette Traks: Review "Tricks", Alice Munro (Nobel Prize for Literature 2013). Blog at huffingtonpost.de, October 31, 2013.
- ↑ Jonathan Franzen: Runaway: Alice's Wonderland , nytimes.com, November 14, 2004.
- ↑ Version of the work that was published on August 11, 2003 in The New Yorker . This first version is freely readable, but less elaborate than the version that was added to the Runaway Collection as the cover story in 2004 .
- ↑ Table of Contents