White peaches, red broom, pomegranates tumbling down the escalator
steps: with these delicately rendered details, Josef Winkler's
Natura Morta begins. In Stazione Termini in Rome, Piccoletto, the
beautiful black-haired boy whose long eyelashes graze his
freckle-studded cheeks, steps onto the metro and heads toward his
job at a fish stand in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. The sights and
sounds of the market, a melange of teeming life amid the ever
present avatars of death, is the backdrop for Winkler's innovative
prose, which unfolds in a series of haunting images and baroque,
luxuriant digressions with pitch-perfect symmetry and intense
visual clarity. Reminiscent of the carnal vitality of Pasolini, and
taking inspiration from the play between the sumptuous and fatal in
the still lives of the late Renaissance, Natura Morta is a unique
experiment in writing as stasis, culminating in the beatification
of its protagonist. In awarding this book with the 2001 Alfred
Doblin Prize, Gunter Grass singled out Winkler's commitment to the
writer's vocation and praised Natura Morta as a work of dense
poetic rigor. "Magnificent. A poetic study of the transience of
being. A deeply sensuous book." - Marcel Reich-Ranicki "A hypnotic
novel." - Edmund White
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