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From the infinity of the moment

"time, which swells as the band from a defective music cassette" (Photo: Lea M. pixelio.de )

Richard Obermayr dissected in "window" a primal moment of his family history.

As we reviewed such a novel? No sign of action, but instead turned and meandering sentences, circling again and again to a theme. For this much admits Richard Obermayr to its readers is clear, even on the first page, the point of "The Window" is about. All following pages are against artistic Venture.

also hermetic, like "The Window" at first glance, seems, the author seems to live entirely in his literature. About his debut novel "The fake sky" also can find out with a few clicks easy to see that Richard Obermayr like photographed. Otherwise, the author website appears in pure white.

Eight years it took, submitted to Obermayr with "window" his second novel. This promises a major step, a finely cut diamond. But in the beginning there is a misunderstanding that can occur on too frivolous reading the blurb: It is not a murder story. The ball, the leitmotif flies through the novel, does not reach - at least not a human - destination. However, the narrator finds himself at the place of his childhood and attracted to his parents house. In thought or in fact, when he returns from his long walks through town. Frame the gorgeous pictures, which is trying to take Upper Mayr: the never-passing memory of a childhood idyll, the father with a freshly caught falcons at the kitchen table, the mother in the kitchen, the astonished son in the middle.

Ums growing up, waxing and growing up circling the thoughts of the narrator who reflects hardly bearable in excess of himself and his own visually stunning presence in question states: ". Sometimes it is as if one, when he breathes, breathing with him that the air gets to him too, still flows through his lungs"

The biggest trick Obermayr's, however, is probably the continuation of the time he freezes the moment of his childhood again and again, goes through a solidified family arrangement or the surrounding countryside throughout the house. Time becomes the enemy, a hostile material that "pours out as the band music from the defective cartridge.

makes so much "window" clear. Linguistically masterful, endlessly deliberate tells Richard Obermayr succeed here, the dream of stopping time on the paper. A risk, it's worth it.



Richard Obermayr:
window
Jung and Jung, 2010
267 pages, 22 €