
It wasn't a Nightmare
Cuvillier Verlag eBooks
Published on 20. January 2023
100 pages
978-3-7369-6722-9 (ISBN)
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After 'Pleasures on the Periphery' (2022: Cuvillier), 'It wasn’t a Nightmare' is the second collection of authentic and at times surreal observations of life and work in the provinces and also some of the capitals of Poland, Hungary, Finland, England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Following the snapshot-technique of Jack London, Laurie Lee and Christopher Isherwood, the vignette-like stories aim to reflect on the harshness and then again rare sudden beauty of life to be encountered in every corner of the world where human beings come together in very different contexts. In the background, the narrator keeps asking the question of what is the “truth“ regarding the sociological mechanisms and driving forces in the fabric of these contexts.
As in the first volume, this book includes a number of original photographs from the narrator’s own private collections.
Nach 'Pleasures on the Periphery' (2022: Cuvillier), ist 'It wasn’t a Nightmare' die zweite Sammlung authentischer and bisweilen surrealer Beobachtungen des Lebens und Arbeitens in der Provinz und teils auch den Hauptstädten von Polen, Ungarn, Finnland, England, Schottland, Irland, Spanien und der ehemaligen DDR. In der erzählerischen Tradition der Schnappschuss-Technik von Jack London, Laurie Lee und Christopher Isherwood zielen die an Vignetten erinnernden Geschichten darauf, die Härte einerseits sowie die seltene und überraschend aufleuchtende Schönheit des Lebens andererseits, wie es sich zeigt, wenn Menschen egal an welchem Ort in sehr unterschiedlichen Kontexten zusammenkommen, widerzuspiegeln. Im Hintergrund stellt der Erzähler dabei immer wieder die Frage nach der „Wahrheit“, die diesen Kontexten in ihren soziologischen Dynamiken zugrunde liegt.
Wie bereits der erste Band enthält auch dieses Werk eine Reihe originaler Fotografien aus den privaten Beständen des Erzählers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
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10,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-7369-6722-9 (9783736967229)
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John Coates
It wasn't a Nightmare
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01/2023
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Cuvillier Verlag
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- Intro
- Foreword
- Tormore
- An incident at the saw-bench in South Oxfordshire
- Horse Piss
- Two weeks in Derryberg
- Grantham
- Just a statistic
- The Hospital of the Three Crosses
- Alexander
- Mr. X
- Fulda Reifen
- Edina Molitor
- The Brigadier
- The Man in the Mercedes
- The Warsaw Autumn of Poetry
- It wasn't a nightmare
- The border in winter
- The standard and the metric
- Mr. Kutscher
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