"brutt," or "The Sighing Gardens" is the hallucinatory tale of an
obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the
daily journal entries of the writer--a montage of relentless
observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper
articles, literature, and private correspondence. The process of
aging and the process of writing are two persistent and carefully
intertwined themes, though it is apparent that plot and theme are
subordinate to the linguistic experiments that Friederike Mayrocker
performs as she explores them. Mayrocker is known for crossing the
boundaries of literary forms and in her prose work she creates a
hypnotic, slurred narrative stream that is formally seamless while
simultaneously overstepping all the bounds of grammar and style.
She is always pushing to expose the limits of language and explore
its experimental potential, seeking a re-ordering of the world
through the re-ordering of words. Her multilayered texts are
reminiscent of the traditions of Surrealism and Dadaism and display
influences from the works of Beckett, Holderlin, Freud, and
Barthes. Yet, much of Mayrocker's writing simply has no corollary
and the experience of reading Roslyn Theobald's brilliant
translation grants the English-speaking audience an unforgettable
encounter with this completely original work." "
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