Das Jahr 2010 habe ich mit dem Lesen zweier Lieblingsschriftsteller begonnen, und so geht es im Jänner im Moment auch weiter.
Den Ismail Kadare habe ich gestern beendet und er hat mir wieder sehr gut gefallen, obwohl ich bisher ja nur deutsche Übersetzungen gelesen habe, war auch meine erste Englische sehr gut. Von Kadare werde ich mir definitiv noch mehr kaufen. Außerdem wäre die albanische Geschichte natürlich auch sehr interessant, aber bisher habe ich noch nichts gefunden, was meinen qualitativen und preislichen Vorstellungen betrifft.
Heute geht es mit einem meiner amerikanischen Lieblingsautoren, nämlich Philip Roth weiter, vielleicht geht sich im Jänner dann auch noch ein Updike aus. Den Februar werde ich - so wie auch schon 2008 - dann dünneren Büchern widmen.
Das ist mein neues Buch (ein Weihnachtsgeschenk meines Mannes):
Philip ROTH
Exit Ghost
Product Description: The last ordeal of Nathan Zuckerman, the indomitable literary adventurer of Roth's nine Zuckerman books, like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age.
Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body. The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman's first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation.
The third connection is with Lonoff's would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff's "great secret." Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities.
Haunted by Roth's earlier work The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost is an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer's insatiable commitment to fiction.
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