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the complete review - fiction

Izlaženje

by
Barbi Marković

[an overview of the reviews and critical reactions]

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Why we haven't reviewed it yet:
Want to compare it more closely with Thomas Bernhard's Walking (Gehen), which this novel is a 'remix' of


Chances that we will review it:
Good

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  From the Reviews:

• "Perfekt ist die Mimikry, das Resultat aber etwas mager. (...) Der jugendlichen Lust auf Unterhaltung sei das Original empfohlen, nicht die Kopie." - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure.

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Notes about the Reviews
and the Book's Reception:

       Izlaženje is a 're-mix' of Thomas Bernhard's novella, Walking (Gehen), as Marković takes Bernhard's perambulatory novella and turns it into one about the Belgrade clubing scene. The changes she makes leave the rhythm and much of the substance of Bernhard's text unchanged, except that the destinations and the philosophically-tinged talk now are very different.
       The German version has garnered decent attention and obviously benefits from being even closer to Bernhard's original. The title works very well, too: Ausgehen means 'to go out' (as to a club, etc.) but it can also be read as 'out of Gehen', which is what the text itself is.
       Critics seem to be divided as to whether it's just a clever gimmick or actually offers something new; it does, however, seem to work quite well.

       (Bernhard's Walking is included in the volume of Three Novellas (see the University of Chicago Press publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) -- but don't count on Izlaženje appearing in English anytime soon.)

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Links:

• Suhrkamp publicity page
• Walking by Thomas Bernhard - opening pages, translated Kenneth Northcott

• Aviva (German)
• Dnews.de (German)
• Falter (German)
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung (German)
• now ! (German)

• Thomas Bernhard site
• Thomas Bernhard at books and writers
• Internationale Thomas-Bernhard-Stiftung (German)
• Thomas Bernhard links (German)
• Fragments Shoring Ruin, at the crQuarterly
• Chronology (German)

• In Hora Mortis - Under the Iron of the Moon
• My Prizes
• 3 Days
• Victor Halfwit
• Alexander Schimmelbusch's Bernhard(-isn't-dead) novel, Die Murau Identität
• Gitta Honegger's study of Thomas Bernhard

• See Index of Eastern European literature
• German literature at the complete review

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About the Author:

       Serbian author Barbara Marković was born in 1980.

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