The world is refracted in the scenes of provincial life: paint your village and paint the world, his characters reveal the existence of a stigmatized and everyday fascism away from the temptations of folklore, each one is like, but natural as the human race is not to leave in peace those who have close, the village life is always based on the design miserable or complacent, moving or grotesque, the lives of its inhabitants. A bit that seems to be stating what is proposed forest Tuesday, the first and German-winning novel by Andreas Maier. Sebastian
Adomeit is an old "original", someone who everyone in Wetterau, a town near Frankfurt, trying to "stick a bit of normalcy to the force." An eccentric character, which is considered superior, always right, funny and truthful. Adomeit inexplicable uncertain date of his death, something he used to play them a trick on their neighbors. After his death is found to have left stipulated that his funeral was conducted Tuesday of Pentecost. This will display the discordant voices of those who evoke the deceased and the mysteries of their way of life inspired by the most outright independence. They are also monologues, reflections and dialogues interwoven subtly. All inventory eccentric and fantastic in which nobody knows the truth, we all suspect, no one is.
The connection, or that cross between Thomas Bernhard and Manuel Puig outlined from some criticism is almost comical. The translation of Nicholas Gelormini not remember at all bernhardiana prose that the English translator Miguel Sáenz made us believe that is typical of Bernhard's books. As for Puig, this book has much to do with him as an elephant has to do with "Infinity" Leopardi. Bernhard anything, let alone Puig (thankfully) but the novel of a young German who can sew and embroider and make a mess of disjointed and contradictory stories a whole little less than fascinating.
