Angela Krauß

Angela Krauss’ books were never tomes; but how did she manage to make this new text even more succinct, even more dense, and at the same time even more heavily laden with reflected perceptions than its predecessors? After reading the first pages, it was already clear that Im schönsten Fall was the new favourite. (…) It is set in a Wilhelminian-style house, the foundations of which shudder as a bodybuilder does his morning weight-lifting exercises. In the flat downstairs, a young man operates unremittingly clattering printers, scanners and computers and raps messages out of the window about his and their condition from time to time, while in the flat upstairs, a young woman becomes pregnant and the first-person narrator assesses her life from her childhood to her expectations for the future. All this is interspersed with reports of a “world summit” describing the state of the world, with little slapstick scenes thrown in for good measure.

Frauke Meyer-Gosau: „Alles leuchtet“
© Literaturen 02/2011