Clemens Meyer

These stories of a year draw on the inexhaustible wealth of legends and myths about drinkers, gamblers and losers. And all probabilities, all real-life “fickle happiness”, also apply to the legends of the murderers and gunmen. They have antecedents, are not just part of the parallel world of overheated media, but have been used for a long time in the galaxies of best-selling computer games. German Amok makes the Winnenden gun rampage available to all.
Clemens Meyer offers epic crossfire, fearless, unrelenting, without illusions. It makes you tingle. These stories do not expect any understanding, but, covertly or overtly, they always seek some ultimate meaning. And be it the meaning of the early loss of a close friend or the death of a beloved dog, a theme already encountered in Meyer’s second book. “An axe is an axe and a rose is a rose“.

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© Frankfurter Rundschau, 19 March 2010