Herzgewächse oder Der Fall Adams: Fragmentarische Biographik in unzufälligen Makulaturblättern (Hans Wollschläger - Schriften in Einzelausgaben)

Wollschläger, Hans und Monika [Hrsg.] Wollschläger:

ISBN 10: 3835309587 / ISBN 13: 9783835309586

Published by Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011

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544 S., 20cm x 13cm dunkelblauer GLn m. OU, Eb. mit silbergeprägtem Rücktitel, tadelloses Ex. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Herzgewächse oder Der Fall Adams: Fragmentarische Biographik in unzufälligen Makulaturblättern (Hans Wollschläger - Schriften in Einzelausgaben)
• Publisher: Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3835309587
• ISBN 13: 9783835309586
• Binding: Leinen
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Condition: Wie neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

"This is my centre, these heart plants, and the surroundings are marginals," said Hans Wollschläger about his opus magnum. He called it himself an "insanely extensive, difficult, even ruthless book". The »Herzgewächse« are a fictional artist biography in the form of diary-like recordings. Philosophical writer Michael Adams, born in 1900, returns from emigration to his hometown of Bamberg in 1950. From the present, the early Adenauerzeit to the primal past of human culture, the entries of his fictional diary span. Paranoia and mental disruption torture him more and more, until he ultimately ends up in psychiatry. Cross-fading, quick cuts and abrupt refractions characterize this text, in which different levels of language and consciousness complement each other, ever new stories run towards each other and against each other. The "heart growths" are their structural composition according to music: word sound and meaning enter into a synthesis unique in German literature. The volume reproduces the text of the third edition of 1997, the only completed chapter of the second part (VI) is reprinted in the appendix. Hans Wollschläer's great novelwork remained unfinished. Of an ingeniosity, also an intellectual wealth of thought and a vastness of knowledge that beside it the usual contemporary literary knitting patterns look poor. Jörg Drews