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Die Auswandernden
“The Emigrating” (title translated by AI)
Peter Waterhouse (born 1956)
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Media has come to Austria from the Caucasus. She reads the new language slowly, and the narrator reads with her, stopping, translating, asking and discovering. Language is the subject of this book, and it is a political one: it is language that does not take refugees in but takes hold of them again, in reports, rulings and notices. Against the fixed meanings of the law, the narrator sets a fairy-tale kind of knowledge, questioning words and what they do, and looking for the possibilities that literature opens. Drawings by Nanne Meyer talk with the text throughout this mixture of poetry and essay.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 256 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Austria
- First published
- 2016 by starfruit
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9783922895282 (original)