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Requiem for Ernst Jandl Friederike Mayrocker

Requiem for Ernst Jandl By Friederike Mayrocker

Requiem for Ernst Jandl by Friederike Mayrocker


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Requiem for Ernst Jandl by Friederike Mayrocker

A lyricalrequiem for Mayrocker's late partner, the writer Ernst Jandl.

Austrian poet and playwright Ernst Jandl died in 2000, leaving behind his partner, poet Friederike Mayrockerand bringing to an end a half century of shared life, and shared literary work. Mayrocker 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, Mayrocker recalls memories and shared experiences, andwith the sudden, piercing perception of regrets that often accompany griefreads Jandls 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 Reviews

"Amagnificent translation. . . [Theobald] gives us an autofictional masterpiece of raw emotion, that will resonate with anyone who has ever given thought to how quickly life passes. . . .A web of associations and recollections, Requiem for Ernst Jandl is full of references to both the dead and the living, to literary theorists and to poets, to friends with their advice for the bereaved, and to places both real and dreamed up and most of all, to Jandl himself. Through the powerful immediacy of her at times heart-wrenching language, Mayrocker proves that grief does not have to be private and can acquire a dignity that triumphs over any worry about decency." * Times Literary Supplement *
"Mayrockers Requiem has asymphonic quality,not only because she refers to arequiem, to Mozart, Puccini and Bach, but because the poems themselves are long and meandering, grievingly up and down, filled with movements, short, fleeting reminiscences, untethered realities, mournful cries." * PN Review *

About Friederike Mayrocker

Friederike Mayrocker, born in Vienna is 1924, has been publishing poetry, prose, stage plays, radio plays, and childrens books since 1956. Roslyn Theobald is a literary translator who lives in Oak Park, Illinois.

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NGR9781803090429
9781803090429
1803090421
Requiem for Ernst Jandl by Friederike Mayrocker
New
Paperback
Seagull Books London Ltd
2022-09-23
96
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