Animal triste
Animal triste
S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt/M. 1996, 239 pages
Post coitum animal triste .... After sex, animals feel sad. Perhaps this is a sad book; at any rate, Monika Maron’s new novel is about disappointed love, unfulfilled expectation, a short-circuited utopia. The first-person narrator tells the reader coquettishly that she is about one hundred years old, but in truth she seems to be a woman of about fifty, a palaeontologist from East Berlin who looks back on what is commonly called an impossible love. One day in the museum, shortly after the German-German Wende, she meets Franz from Ulm, who is a member of one of those ill-reputed Western evaluation commissions that is in charge of re-arranging everything in the East, including the Museum of Natural History. Maron tells the story of this German-German love affair in that shade of grey which blurs reality and imagination.
Monika Maron – Biography
Wolf Scheller: „Monika Maron und ihr Roman ‚Animal triste‘. Liebe in den Zeiten der Wende"
© Handelsblatt, 19.04.1996
