In his later work, Jirgl interrogates impotence and the violence of social relationships and injustice. Another influence on that book, and more, on his later work, is Arno Schmidt. Jirgl’s work, originally prevented from being published in the GDR, initially was highly influenced by Müller, whose mixture of stark physicality, and strenuously literary, even stiff, language pervades Jirgl’s Genealogie des Tötens, a book that collects his earliest manuscripts that were prevented from being published in the GDR. A disciple of Heiner Müller, Jirgl rose from being a mechanic and stage hand to winning German literature’s most prestigious award, the Büchner Preis. " But the death of Siegfried Lenz, who was more than deserving of the award, reminded me of the now best German living active novelist: Reinhard Jirgl. Of course, there's also Reinhard Jirgl, whom shigekuni has written extensively about: Based off of his recommendations, he'd be happy if. Here are the Ladbrokes odds from which are the last I've seen before today's:įor 'undiscovered writers,' might I suggest The Untranslated's blog, if you are not already familiar with it.
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