Kvinnor i flodlandskap : roman i dialoger och monologer

Heinrich Bölls letztes Werk - in dem die Frauen der Politiker aus der Bonner Regierungszeit im Mittelpunkt stehen.
Ihre Villen stehen zwischen Bonn und Bad Godesberg, auf dem politischen Parkett dürfen sie nur als dekorative Statistinnen auftreten: die Frauen der Politiker. Sie hat Heinrich Böll in seinem letzten Werk in den Vordergrund gerückt.
In einer Welt der Ränke und Intrigen, des Strebens nach Macht und Einfluss, in der sich ihre Männer fast ausnahmslos bewegen, sind sie das heimliche menschliche Korrektiv. Böll porträtiert nicht, legt keine Spuren zur Identifikation bekannter Politiker. Seine Figuren sind überzeichnet, aber so, dass sie im Unkenntlichen als Modelle der Bonner Szene erkennbar werden. »Ich kenne eigentlich keinen Text, der die Zustände der Menschen und wie sie leben, wie leblos sie leben, besser beschreibt.« Volker Schlöndorff

triste e scarno. di pietra. inchiodante. è praticamente una pièce teatrale in cui, per mancanza di descrizione narrativa, i caratteri dei personaggi sono tutti da indovinare, così come i retroscena e le allusioni storiche e politiche passate e presenti; purtroppo manco della necessaria conoscenza della realtà politica e storica tedesca, essenziale per afferrare bene il tutto. per me sono metafore inspiegabili lo smantellamento dei pianoforti, simbolismo arcano!, e il furto del mirino della mercedes. ne emergere un vivere tedesco ancora più irrigidito e impastoiato di quello italiano; una cultura del clan, delle convenzioni, della religiosità e delle coperture politiche molto sconfortante. ...e il Reno va...

I didn't expect to enjoy Boll's last work. Composed of long dialogues between the characters, much in the manner of a play and with a spattering of stage instructions, and soliloquies, where the characters speak or think to themselves, I was worried that too much would be expository and therefore dull, and that the rest would be mysterious and therefore confusing.

However, I let the first few pages wash over me, not worrying too much to keep track of the names mentioned, but rather to get a sense of the writing. I soon discovered I was enjoying myself, and before long I was hooked.

There is a sadness that runs through this tale of political and moral corruption in 1980s Germany; some of the characters seem to mean so well, yet are misled or make mistakes, and become distressed when they see the consequences of even their most inconsequential act. Further, the weight of history bears down relentlessly. By the end of the book I knew I was holding in my hands a minor masterpiece by a very deserved winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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