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Paranoid Fish

Paranoid-Fish@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

I read books in German and English. I try to explore a wide range of literature, especially fiction, and I also like challenging texts. In general, all periods and genres, with a preference for postmodern literature. I also like magical realism, sci-fi, and sometimes fantasy.

Lese auf deutsch und auf englisch. Ich versuche, mir ein möglichst weites Feld an Literatur, vor allem der Belletristik, zu erschließen; es darf gerne auch mal herausfordernd sein. Grundsätzlich alle Epochen, alle Genres, mit besonderer Vorliebe für die Postmoderne. Magischer Realismus und Sci-Fi gerne, phantastisches manchmal.

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22% complete! Paranoid Fish has read 11 of 50 books.

commented on Alff by Jakob Nolte

Jakob Nolte: Alff (Paperback, German language, Matthes & Seitz) No rating

Benjamins Leiche wird in einen Zaun genäht aufgefunden. Er ist das erste Opfer des »Vollstrickers«, …

Grotesk, absurd, surreal... ich mag besonders den Sprachwitz, der ist wirklich einmalig gut. Der Handlung zu folgen ist etwas herausfordernd, aber das macht nichts.

Heinz Strunk: Zauberberg 2 (EBook, German language, Rowohlt Verlag) 4 stars

Eine Hommage an einen Klassiker, ein großer Roman, ganz und gar Heinz Strunk Jonas Heidbrink, …

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Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore (Hardcover, 2005, Knopf) 4 stars

Kafka on the Shore

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I couldn't help but feel that this story was "Lynchian". The premise is mundane, Kafka Tamura is just another kid running away from his family. The deepening of the story involves chance encounters which later become inseparable from a dramatic notion of fate. Tamura is drawn into a vortex, his fate at odds with the rational, modern, mundane sense of reality brings out the surreal. This is something that the story stylistically clarifies: that surrealism is about subverting what we expect from reality. Dreams are based on our experiences but they are uncanny because they do not follow the rules of the waking world. on the Shore also interestingly seems to suggest kinship between surrealism and myth, Murakami places in our mind the idea that myth is dream and dream is myth. Oedipus and Orpheus live in the unconscious, ruling our fates whether or not we realize it. And this …