Die
Aaleskorte der Ölig by Dirk Günther
and Frank Klötgen [German] Twilight,
a Symphony
by Michael
Joyce [English] Beast by
Jacques Servin [German]
Web
Diaries in Europe and Amerika
[German] Zeit
für die Bombe by Susanne Berkenheger
[German]
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Roberto
Simanowski discovers in Dirk Günter's and
Frank Klötken's "Die Aaleskorte der Ölig"
(Pegasus-Pricewinner 1998) the hidden sense beneath
banality. Simanowski explores the sexual
connotations behind the story of selling an eel,
presented in the aesthetics of uglyness. The excess
of ways to navigate these 20 word-picture-units
(6.9 billion) is revealed as an ironic discurse
about the media itself and a hidden apotheosis of
linear story telling.
Abstract
// www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/18-Aug-99
Susana
Pajares Tosca, editor of the Spanish online-journal
"Hipertulia" reviews Michael
Joyce's "Twilight, a Symphony" and points out the
splendid language
and structure of this multimedia hyperfiction,
which is telling a story about an American, who
hides with his son (his mother has the custody),
and a Polish political refugee, incurably ill and
looking for Doctor Twilight, who practises
euthanasia. "Upon this basic structure, Joyce
builds an impressive scaffolding made up of
voices,memories and thoughts that tells us about
the eternal human themes, death and the search for
the self."
www.dichtung-digital.de/Tosca/15-Juli-99/twilight.htm
Christiane Heibachs review suggests to commit oneself patiently to this demonic multimedia project, in order to see beyond the chaos, ways to react and influence this
horrible overloading.
Abstract
// www.dichtung-digital.de/Heibach/17-Juni-99/beast.htm
An essay by Roberto Simanowski about web-diaries in
Europe and America, about the exhibitionist, commercial,
and opposional aspects of this deliberate exposure
to the Big Brother's eyes. Spanish readers may look
for the Spanish translation in Hipertulia.
Abstract
// www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/10-Juli-99/brief_03.htm
Roberto
Simanowski's review
on Susanne Berkenhegers "Zeit für die Bombe"
(Pegasus-Pricewinner 1997) introduces this fanny
hyperfiction, where Veronika brings a bomb to
Moscow, where Vladimir wants to rescue the Russian
soul. The review describes Berkenheger's refreshing
play with the reader, who is first forced into the
role of a murderer, but then remains
unpunished.
Abstract
// www.dichtung-digital.de/Simanowski/2-Juli-99/brief1_0_x.htm