Moor
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
Wenn es gut läuft für den dreizehnjährigen Dion, wenn also seine Mutter hinreichend nah und die Grenze zwischen ihr und ihm gerade richtig gezogen ist, dann ist auch das Moor eine Landschaft voller Verheißungen. Dion wohnt seit dem Tod des Vaters, der Bauer war, allein mit seiner Mutter in einem norddeutschen Dorf, im letzten Gebäude hinter den Ställen. Morgens, wenn die Mutter ihr Bad im Moor nimmt, kann er den Wind in den Binsen hören. Aber wenn die Mutter, eine erfolglose Künstlerin, ihr Scheitern mit einer grenzüberschreitenden Liebe zum Sohn kompensiert, erlebt Dion das ganze Elend des zu früh erwachsen gewordenen.
Gunther Geltinger schont niemanden, nicht seine Figuren, nicht seine Leser. Er schildert das sexuelle Erwachen Dions, die tabletten- und alkoholsüchtige Mutter, die Grausamkeiten aus dem Dorf.
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Geltinger's (Hombre Angel) second novel traces a lavishly descriptive path through the titular landscape finely rendered in Booth's translation but ultimately sinks beneath the weight of its dense prose and heavy-handed emphasis on the grotesque. The story centers on Dion Katthusen, a 13-year-old boy with a debilitating stutter living in Germany. Divided into four sections named after the seasons, the book begins with Dion's adolescence as he struggles through the complexities of his own sexuality, as well as the sexuality of his mentally unstable mother, Marga, who rapidly transforms into the main adversary of the tale. Seeking isolation, Dion begins to explore a strange moor filled with legends and mystery; the moor speaks for Dion, who cannot summon the words to convey his own experience. This literary device, however, pushes Dion to the role of powerless outsider and observer. Strikingly, the sections told with the most clarity come through Marga's voice, as she responds to Dion's award-winning account of his childhood, which he publishes later in life. Marga's responses to specific passages within her son's writing "a heavily detailed and vindictive tapeworm of a sentence, without any break" illustrate the mentally exhausting ordeal of trudging through the tortured, time-jumping structure of Geltinger's novel. Lush imagery abounds, with gorgeous depictions of the northern German countryside. Unfortunately, the effort of reading Geltinger feels more like hacking through a jungle than traversing a rain-sodden moor.