Kategorie: Stories and excerpts
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Winter Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/2 As the name suggests, these literary miniatures take us to a wintry setting. On the coldest day of the year, we will encounter God. – Will he comfort us with his warmth? Or has he, too, frozen to death in this cold world? Winterly Seclusion On…
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Dreams about Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/1. At first glance, the language of dreams seems enigmatic to us. However, if we are willing to engage with their peculiar logic, they can help us see things more clearly. This is all the more true when they are a mirror of our own depths. Midnight…
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Murderous Dreams
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady Does a murder mark us with a mark of Cain that alienates us from others forever? Or can people detach such an act from themselves as if it were someone else’s deed and go on…
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Gladiatorial Combat in Parliament
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady The members of the German parliament appear to the protagonist of Nadja Dietrich’s crime novel like actors following a prepared script. Unfortunately, in her view, the casting agency did a poor job. The visit to…
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Lidia Afanasyevna’s God
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady The god that the protagonist in Nadja Dietrich’s crime novel dreams up plays an instrument with an infinite number of strings. Each string corresponds to a different universe, and together they make up the divine…
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Everyday Life on Lidia Afanasyevna’s Dream Planet
Excerpts from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Murder in the German Parliament! Investigations of a Cleaning Lady Perhaps there is a planet somewhere in the vastness of the universe where you wake up as someone else every day. Every day there would be a lottery in which you would always have the…
Planet Literature 