What I always wanted to tell you

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Alice Munro , Nobel Prize in Literature 2013

What I always wanted to tell you Thirteen Stories (in the original Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You , 1974) is the third of fourteen collections of short stories by the Canadian writer Alice Munro . Almost 30 years later the volume was published in German.

In her review of the volume for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Angela Schader expresses her astonishment at Munro and at “how much explosive and destructive power she can smuggle into her supposedly harmless settings.” Munro stages the encounter between the sexes and that between the generations equally complex and diverse. Her protagonists have passed out anger and turn their negative feelings into flashing daggers, and sometimes it can be hell when wishes come true, says Angela Schader. In the title story Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You there is an exceptional dramatic crescendo , otherwise the evil unfolds in these stories from 1974 silently, gently and brightly.

Works included

  • What I've Always Wanted to Tell You (Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You), p. 9
  • Material (Material), p. 44
  • How I Met My Husband (How I Met My Husband), p. 77
  • Walking on Water, p. 110
  • Forgiveness in Families, 148
  • Tell Me Yes or No, p. 168
  • The Found Boat, p. 198
  • Executioners, p. 217
  • Marrakech (Marrakesh), p. 243
  • The Spanish Lady, p. 271
  • Winter Wind (Winter Wind), p. 295
  • Gedenken (Memorial), p. 318
  • The Ottawa Valley, p. 349

expenditure

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You was first published in English in 1974 and almost 30 years later in German by Dörlemann Verlag in Zurich in 2012. After the thirteen short stories, the volume contains two sections entitled Zur Autorin and to her translator and to the book .

Research literature

  • Louis K. MacKendrick, Some other reality: Alice Munro's "Something I've been meaning to tell you" . ECW Press, Toronto 1993, ISBN 1-55022-129-9

Individual evidence

  1. Angela Schader, It doesn't always have to be rat poison - Early Tales by Canadian Master Alice Munro. Review in the NZZ , May 22, 2012, last accessed on February 11, 2014.