Kategorie: Stories and excerpts
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The Monastery Library
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie His search for clues to the secret of „Emperor’s Eyrie“ leads Carlo, the protagonist of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Emperor’s Eyrie, to an imposing monastery library – a gigantic monument to the spirit. Anyone entering this library is inevitably carried away to higher spheres.…
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The Language of Nature
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie The multifaceted language of forms with which nature testifies to its playful creative power on a small as well as on a large scale is particularly pronounced in the mountains. Turk’s cap lily, green-winged and lady’s slipper orchid … All these tentative attempts…
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The Mountain World – Sublime and Terrifying at the Same Time
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie The sublime and the terrible – nowhere are they closer than in the mountains. This applies to the mountains themselves, but also to our dealings with them. Isn’t it strange that people can find the mountain world beautiful? A world that was not…
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Nadja Dietrich: A Mountain Hike
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie. Part 2 of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Kaiserhorst is set in the mountains. These are therefore also a recurring starting point for philosophical reflections. An evening in the village pub: the male choral society gives a demonstration of its skills. Vibrating voices, great pathos.…
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Art and the Mountains
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie After escaping from the psychiatric ward, Carlo, the protagonist of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Emperor’s Eyrie, retreats to a remote mountain hut. There he also regains the strength to devote himself to his work as a painter. The relativising effect of the mountains has…
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Expropriated Reality: Life in a Psychiatric Ward
Excerpt from Nadja Dietrich’s Novel Emperor’s Eyrie Part 1 of Nadja Dietrich’s novel Emperor’s Eyrie is set in a psychiatric ward. The longer the diarist and protagonist of the novel is kept there, the more he is affected by the image that is created of him there. The longer I…
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