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Bitow, A: Geschmack - Softcover

 
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Synopsis

Cut off from Western modernism known to him only by hearsay, Andrej Bitow reinvented the stream of consciousness for Russian literature in the early sixties. The unexpected freshness and boldness of this process testifies to the novel taste translated for the first time into German: an impression like listening to old Coltrane plates.
Civil engineer Alexei Monachov, a melancholic average citizen, sits on the train from Leningrad to Moscow. The pulsing of the landscape in front of the window, the feeling that his life will bring nothing new, new par excellence, sudden suggestions, flashing ideas, immediately torn away like drifting material in the stream of consciousness - so the poor hero chases through the few days we experience with him: in the dacha area of Peredelkino, at the grave Pasternak. The Beerdigung einer alten Verwandten.
Monachow is a seeker, a person for whom the gap between role and au-thental being is becoming ever deeper. The "last living sense that is still available to him" is a taste in the mouth - gross but irrefutable, the certainty of being still close to itself in extreme self-alienation. Monachow's pirogue at the station buffet has no less metaphysical dignity than the Madeleine who dipped Marcel Proust into a cup of lime blossom tea a humanity epoch earlier.

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