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Aksolotli: Yliajo (2010)

by Helene Hegemann(Favorite Author)

2.32 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Otava

review 1: 29.9.2014 Dieses kontrovers rezipierte Buch ist ebenfalls schon lange auf meiner persönlichen Leseliste. Bin schon neugierig..05.10.20114 Wasserfallartig stürzen Bilder und Gedanken über den Leser und nässen ihn bis in die letzte Hautfalte.Eine sprachmächtige vulgäre, bösartige, tieftraurige, verstörende Suada. Die "Ausleihungen" der Autorin seien ihr gänzlich verziehen - im Gesamtkontext des Buches kein Problem. Mir hat es sehr gefallen.
review 2: It's impossible to look at this without leaping to the (normally extraneous and irrelevant) fact of the writer's age (Helene Hegemann is calendar-flippingly precocious and I came to it, like many, on the back of 'Generation Zero' / Literary Sensation coverage). Look, it's a forceful debut. She's obviously go... moret potential and - at moments - she can write (the sound of a leg injury 'like someone biting into an apple through a loudspeaker' and suchlike). But otherwise, it's shapeless, meaningless, narcissistic adolescent bollocks. Riddled with non-sequiturs and faux profundity. It's a precocious middle class teen's imagined picture of what the life of an older teen might look like (after leaving home and going to live in Kreuzberg), complete with pouting adolescent deathwish. It's a teenager on speed trying to channel David Foster Wallace. It's 200 pages of listening to someone talking about their dreams - and like dreams, we don't know who's talking to who; we don't know how we got to this house; we don't know what that utterance meant and, well, we're not very interested. It also reminds me of a short story a girl in my English class portentously wrote 'about drugs', which I never read, but which she told everyone was 'based on real experience' (same girl once came in wearing black, telling a few listeners that she was "mourning 'old Ann'"). That sort of hilarious self-conscious crap teenagers come out with. What's that line again? Oh yeah: "write about what you know". No, the most fascinating bit is the extraneous stuff. Die Welt.. Suddeutsche Zeitung...you've been had. If I found out a little later that this was an Ern Malley-style literary hoax, I would yell "I KNEW IT!!!!!". less

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