Ntschotschi
July 3rd, 2006, 05:04 PM
Libbidissi is one of my favorite new novels and I found out that it has been tranlsated in English. So I wanted to know if anyone read it and what you think about it?
The author was well over forty before the novel got a publisher. He sent it in in vain for years. Finally a small publisher had the courage to publish him and he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Preis ( most renowned literature prize for german writing authors) the same year. Critiques are still argueing about him but I love Klein's books.
Libbidissi is a very strange kind of agent thriller set in a strange city which is the main "actor" of the book.
The hero, an agent, is supposed to be called back from Libbidissi, a city in some kind of african (?) place, cause like his predecesserors he got corrupted by the city.
This means he is supposed to get killed by his replacements. The replacements are twins (?), lovers (?) - their perspecitve is only "us" - who are cool agents who hunt him but get confronted with this strange city as well.
It's not classic fantasy but has a lot of surreal elements.
The author was well over forty before the novel got a publisher. He sent it in in vain for years. Finally a small publisher had the courage to publish him and he won the Ingeborg Bachmann Preis ( most renowned literature prize for german writing authors) the same year. Critiques are still argueing about him but I love Klein's books.
Libbidissi is a very strange kind of agent thriller set in a strange city which is the main "actor" of the book.
The hero, an agent, is supposed to be called back from Libbidissi, a city in some kind of african (?) place, cause like his predecesserors he got corrupted by the city.
This means he is supposed to get killed by his replacements. The replacements are twins (?), lovers (?) - their perspecitve is only "us" - who are cool agents who hunt him but get confronted with this strange city as well.
It's not classic fantasy but has a lot of surreal elements.