Markus Werner

The Frog in the Throat (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Hofmann, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a small town in Switzerland, Franz-ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends- is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which Klement never spoke to him again. In death, Klement visits his son in the form of a frog in the throat, choking him, yes, but also giving voice to an old dairy farmer devoted to the old ways, forever railing against his son and the whole modern mess he represents. The same can be said of this novel, in which these two voices clash, harmonize, and ultimately offer up all the mutual recognition and incomprehension that is family life. A miniature tragicomic masterpiece, Markus Werner's second novel is as bursting with life as a Dickens novel: not only Franz's high-strung shenanigans and the father's settled life among the cattle, but the lives of his sister and brother and the land all around. As in all of Werner's work, the world looks grim ("I sit around, I drink, I brood, I pat myself down for flaws and find many and each evening I say: Starting tomorrow I'm going to get a grip on myself") but never less than comic-a view captured marvelously in Michael Hofmann's vivid translation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York Review Books
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781681379135
• Artikelnr.: 70899804

Autorenporträt

Markus Werner (1944-2016) was a Swiss writer. His first novel, Zündel's Departure, was published in 1984 to instant acclaim, and he went on to write six more books. He is the recipient of the Joseph Breitbach Prize and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Swiss Schiller Foundation. Michael Hofmann is a German-born, British-educated poet, translator, and critic. The author of five books of poems, he has translated some hundred titles from the German. His translations have won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the 2024 International Booker Prize. He teaches at the University of Florida.