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Rain (1999)

by Karen Duve

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It will get better when it stops raining, said Leon. When Leon Ulbricht lands a contract to write a gangster's memoirs and moves into his dream home in an East German village with his beautiful wife Martina, everything seems set for an idyllic existence. But the dream home turns out to be in the middle of a fetid swamp; his house and marriage are falling apart; he can't write the book and has spent all of his advance. It rains without end and their attempts to repair the house, or at least dry it out, are hampered by the plague of slugs eating away at the foundations. And then the gangster, wondering why his memoirs are not yet completed, decides to get nasty.… (more)
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Horrible. A waste of Bell's brilliance. ( )
  Niafer | Nov 17, 2018 |
...gut für den Leser, der sich mit diebischem Vergnügen an dem uralten Widerspruch zwischen Natur und Geist erfreuen darf, den die Roman-Debütantin Karen Duve hier mit Anklängen an Leons Vorgänger Gustav Aschenbach oder Walter Faber aufbereitet und parodistisch überzeichnet. Vergnügen bereitet auch die Fähigkeit der Autorin, ihre naturalistischen, oft drastischen Beschreibungen mit originellen Vergleichen zu durchsetzten. Wenn Martina sich im trauten Familienkreis zuerst den Magen vollschlägt, um sich dann auf dem Klo heimlich zu übergeben, wird das mitleidlos, aber sprachlich meisterlich präzise dargestellt. Mit einem schönen Vergleich werden dagegen Martinas Augen charakterisiert: sie liegen "so nackt und verschreckt in ihren Höhlen, als wären diese nicht ihr angestammter Platz, sondern nur ein vorläufiger Zufluchtsort, und es könnte jederzeit der rechtmäßige Besitzer kommen, Ansprüche geltend machen und sie wie zwei Murmeln in die Tasche stecken."
 

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It will get better when it stops raining, said Leon. When Leon Ulbricht lands a contract to write a gangster's memoirs and moves into his dream home in an East German village with his beautiful wife Martina, everything seems set for an idyllic existence. But the dream home turns out to be in the middle of a fetid swamp; his house and marriage are falling apart; he can't write the book and has spent all of his advance. It rains without end and their attempts to repair the house, or at least dry it out, are hampered by the plague of slugs eating away at the foundations. And then the gangster, wondering why his memoirs are not yet completed, decides to get nasty.

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