In Darryl, Jackie Ess resurrects the 2010s in all their glossy malice while sending her protagonist through spirals of gender, sex, and heteropessimism. Beneath the deadpan humor of this unflinching debut lurks a puzzling question: what does it mean to be real when this is not what you feel?
In Jonathan Glazers The Zone of Interest dröhnt der Holocaust als Soundscape über die NS-Heimatidylle, in Selma Doboracs De Facto erzählen sich Menschheitsverbrechen in quälenden Monologen selbst. Beide Filme zeigen Täter, ohne Taten zu bebildern. Wie weit reicht ihre Kritik der Gewalt?
The tastemakers of the prestige prose industry, Fitzcarraldo Editions extends its hegemony with an array of new poetry titles. Four new books clad in well-known white and blue turn towards the small and the strange—refusing relevance, embracing opacity, and letting language fail beautifully.
“Perfection fuses the authenticity of its author’s southern European experience with the accessibility of not only a sleek and highly idiomatic translation—as was the case with Elena Ferrante’s novels—but of writing that, in its very inception, squeezes itself into an international mould.”
“Latronico’s criticism of the Anglophone market clashes with his own literary practice: although he calls out the issues of dominant cultural hegemony at the expense of authenticity, he has himself written a novel in a language programmed to be digestible within the established limits.”