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Lädt ... The Occidental Hotel (Essential Prose)von John Bentley Mays
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"Mays's passion for art electrifies fascinating sketches of Beuys." -Quill and Quire A brooding fugitive hides out in a crumbling hotel that was once filled with celebrities enjoying the successes of postwar America. He is a racist with a criminal past, an anti-hero who reflects on the ruins of the South and simultaneously on the life of a German performance artist called "Jupp". The fictional Jupp is a thinly-veiled cipher for the late real-life German artist, Joseph Beuys, and the photos in the novel are photos of the performances by the controversial Beuys. At once echoing the moody worlds of W. G. Sebald and incorporating outrageous elements of pulp fiction, this novel of dark romanticism is not for optimists seeking redemption, but for those willing to take a look into a searing heart of darkness. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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A racist narrator with a murky past is holed up in an abandoned hotel. He writes a memoir, ostensibly addressed to a young boy also in the hotel, which describes the career of a German performance artist called Jupp (who is clearly based on the artist Joseph Beuys). Jupp's art expresses his attempts to come to grips with his post-war traumas, as the writing of this memoir serves to allow the narrator to lay out his own sordid past.
This is a pretty grim story, with two main characters who are both intentionally unempathetic; both are intensely flawed men in their different ways. The nature of the narrator's character, the solitary life of his subject, and the almost impenetrable nature of his art, make this a challenging read. (