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Roman Elegy

A model of literary craftsmanship, a novel of the interpretation of memory and coming to terms with the past.

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  • "A model of literary craftsmanship, a novel of the interpretation of memory and coming to terms with the past."@en
  • "The novel has a framework narrative, set in 2009, in which the manuscript that Ines had been working on comes to light. It is found by Ines' childhood friend Clara, who travels to Rome after Ines' death to sort out her affairs. Clara meets up with Paul Vogel, a historian of fascism and the German occupation who had a one-night stand with Ines and saw her again shortly before she died. Clara seems less upset at her friend's passing than at Ines making no mention of her in her writing and for skewing certain facts. But Ines' story resulted from reading eyewitness accounts of the Nazi occupation that she happened upon in a scholarly journal, and from conversations with Emma, her former employer. The intimate personal details of Emma's life that it contains speak of a rapprochement between the two women: genuine working through the past, it seems, does not reside in ostentatious public acts of contrition but rather is teased out in small shared acts of remembrance and reconciliation." -- New Books in German web site."
  • "Als ihre beste Freundin Ines in Rom plötzlich stirbt, reist Clara Burger aus Stillbach in Südtirol an, um Ines Haushalt aufzulösen. Dabei entdeckt sie ein Romanmanuskript, das im Rom des Jahres 1978 spielt, dem Jahr der Entführung und Tötung Aldo Moros. Darin beschreibt Ines offenbar ihre eigene Ferienarbeit vor mehr als dreißig Jahren als Zimmermädchen im Hotel Manente, schreibt von Liebe, Verrat und Subversion, erzählt aber die Geschichte ihrer Chefin Emma Manente, die seit 1938 in Rom lebt und zum Leidwesen ihrer Südtiroler Familie einen Italiener geheiratet hat. War sie tatsächlich Johann aus Stillbach versprochen gewesen, der 1944 bei einem Partisanenanschlag in Rom getötet worden war? Und ist der Historiker Paul, den Clara in Rom kennenlernt, der Geliebte von Ines aus jenem Jahr? Wie wirken die Spannungen um Südtirol und seine Zugehörigkeit seit der NS-Zeit und dem Faschismus bis heute nach? In diesem großen, wunderschön geschriebenen Roman erzählt Sabine Gruber spannend und präzise von der Verflechtung persönlicher und historischer Ereignisse, von Stillbach und von Rom, von Verrat und Verbrechen, von Sehnsucht, Wahrheit und neuer Liebe."
  • "The core of the book comprises the interlinked stories of two women, both German-speaking Italians from the fictional South Tyrolese village of Stillbach. Emma and Ines come to work in Rome at different times and end up spending their entire lives there. Alternating with an account from the 1970s told by Ines is the story of Emma, who arrived in the capital via Venice in the late 1930s, driven from her northern homeland by economic hardship. Emma remains in Rome throughout the Nazi occupation and its immediate aftermath, becomes pregnant, marries the father and eventually inherits the family business. Her fiancé́, a Stillbach boy drafted into the SS, had been a victim of a partisan bomb. Vivid and painful memories of that loss well up in Emma, as well as nostalgia for her native Boze."
  • "Een Zuid-Tirools kamermeisje in een Romeins hotel raakt verwikkeld bij de ontvoering van Aldo Moro."
  • ""The core of the book comprises the interlinked stories of two women, both German-speaking Italians from the fictional South Tyrolese village of Stillbach. Emma and Ines come to work in Rome at different times and end up spending their entire lives there. Alternating with an account from the 1970s told by Ines is the story of Emma, who arrived in the capital via Venice in the late 1930s, driven from her northern homeland by economic hardship. Emma remains in Rome throughout the Nazi occupation and its immediate aftermath, becomes pregnant, marries the father and eventually inherits the family business. Her fiancé́, a Stillbach boy drafted into the SS, had been a victim of a partisan bomb. Vivid and painful memories of that loss well up in Emma, as well as nostalgia for her native Boze."
  • "The novel has a framework narrative, set in 2009, in which the manuscript that Ines had been working on comes to light. It is found by Ines' childhood friend Clara, who travels to Rome after Ines' death to sort out her affairs. Clara meets up with Paul Vogel, a historian of fascism and the German occupation who had a one-night stand with Ines and saw her again shortly before she died. Clara seems less upset at her friend's passing than at Ines making no mention of her in her writing and for skewing certain facts. But Ines' story resulted from reading eyewitness accounts of the Nazi occupation that she happened upon in a scholarly journal, and from conversations with Emma, her former employer. The intimate personal details of Emma's life that it contains speak of a rapprochement between the two women: genuine working through the past, it seems, does not reside in ostentatious public acts of contrition but rather is teased out in small shared acts of remembrance and reconciliation."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"

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  • "Stillbach oder Die Sehnsucht Roman"
  • "Stillbach oder die Sehnsucht"
  • "Stillbach oder Die Sehnsucht"
  • "Stillbach, oder Die Sehnsucht : Roman"
  • "Stillbach oder Die Sehnsucht : Roman"
  • "Roman elegy"
  • "Roman Elegy"@en
  • "Stillbach oder die Sehnsucht Roman"
  • "Stillbach oder die Sehnsucht : Roman"
  • "Stillbach, oder, Die Sehnsucht : Roman"

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