Friederike Mayröcker

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Boredom As a Luxury: Ennui

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Friederike Mayrocker

brütt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer’s love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer—a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are subordinate to the linguistic experiments that Friederike Mayröcker performs as she explores them. Mayröcker is known for crossing the boundaries of literary forms and in her prose work she creates a hypnotic, slurred narrative stream that is formally seamless while simultaneously overstepping all the bounds of grammar and style. She is always pushing to expose the limits of language and explore its experimental potential, seeking a re-ordering of the world through the re-ordering of words. Her multilayered texts are reminiscent of the traditions of Surrealism and Dadaism and display influences from the works of Beckett, Hölderlin, Freud, and Barthes. Yet, much of Mayrocker’s writing simply has no corollary and the experience of reading Roslyn Theobald’s brilliant translation grants the English-speaking audience an unforgettable encounter with this completely original work.

Brutt, Or The Sighing Gardens

Reise durch die Nacht

Gesammelte Gedichte 1939-2003

More than an account of a train trip from Paris to Vienna, Night Train depicts a journey through life, as conceived by the female narrator. In poetic prose that is as magical as it is honest, the speaker reflects on issues such as time, childhood, and the process of aging. In light of our ultimate destination of death, the question reverts to what it means to be alive. Life is seen as an opportunity for self-development, that is, for creativity coupled with sexuality, which for an author means writing.

Night Train

A group of poems from the core member of the Vienna Group and one of Europe’s most intrepid avant-garde writers, this collection contains more than 300 poems from seven decades of writing. The poems are true to the legacies of romanticism and surrealism and exhibit the poet’s ability to push the limits of convention to reveal a deeper structure of existence, ranging from elation to abyss.

Selected Poems 1946-2006

Raving Language

„ich bin in der Anstalt“ nennt Friederike Mayröcker, die »Grande Dame der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur« (Süddeutsche Zeitung), ihre neue Prosaschrift – ein Buch der Betrachtungen von Körperlichkeit und Körperempfinden, ein Tasten nach den ständig sich verschiebenden Grenzen von Innen und Außen, ein Versuch ihrer Auflösung im Moment des Schreibens, radikal und schonungslos.

Fusznoten zu einem nichtgeschriebenen Werk

ich bin in der Anstalt

»Verehrte Lauscher und Lauscherinnen versuchen Sie nicht das Geheimnis dieses Textes zu lüften«, verfügt Friederike Mayröcker in ihrem neuen Prosawerk – aber schon sein Titel legt eine unfehlbare Spur. da ich morgens und moosgrün. Ans Fenster trete lässt keine Zweifel an dem, was immer noch Tag für Tag zu tun ist: hellwach und neugierig auf die Welt blicken und ihr eine Kunst abgewinnen, die Wörter in Sternschnuppen verwandelt und die Sprache selbst als einen schier unerschöpflichen poetischen Zauberkasten begreift: »meine Texte entstehen durch sich fortpflanzende Augen«, so eines der Geheimnisse, das die Wiener Dichterin ihren Leserinnen und Lesern doch noch preisgibt. Mag die »Leibhaftigkeit« im hochbetagten Alter auch mühselig geworden sein, mögen die Listen an Wörtern, die mit den Jahren abhandengekommen sind, auch länger werden, wie die Poetin selbst beklagt – »in meinen Träumen bin ich jung, in meinen Träumen bin ich high«, versichert Friederike Mayröcker, und dieses Credo gilt umso mehr für ihre unvergleichliche, grenzenlose und ganz und gar unausdeutbare Dichtung.

da ich morgens und moosgrün. Ans Fenster trete

der Schatten : das ungewisse Garten-Werk : zu Arbeiten von Linde Waber

Umbra

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayröcker--and bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayröcker immediately began attempting to come to terms with his death in the way that poets struggling with loss have done for millennia: by writing. ​Requiem for Ernst Jandl is the powerfully moving outcome. In this quiet but passionate lament that grows into a song of enthralling intensity, Mayröcker recalls memories and shared experiences, and--with the sudden, piercing perception of regrets that often accompany grief--reads Jandl's works in a new light. Alarmed by a sudden, existential emptiness, she reflects on the future, and the possibility of going on with her life and work in the absence of the person who, as we see in this elegy, was a constant conversational and creative partner.

Requiem for Ernst Jandl

Friederike Mayröcker

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