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Stefano Benni - Comic terrified warriors

Luzius Lurch is seventy. He lives with his canary Caruso on mountain three, in a large city and was before his retirement in Latin and Italian teacher. Leo, a former favorite student of Lucius, from mountain four is shot dead - in a residential area. Then determines not only the police, more so the journalist Carlo chameleon and Luzius Lurch even goes after the murder with his squire Luchsi.

surreal is this novel. Just put the edge into the future, as if found at the end of the book is that is particularly dense in the room that night navigation. Such a role does not - in fact acts over and over again on the same day, although the names for food, cars, houses, people, etc. have changed. Although crime is commonplace, mayors are elected in large cities even though (or rather because) they have good connections with manufacturers, arms smugglers and drug dealers. More than the violence escalated a bit more, hope the youth will fight and goes by the indifference, recklessness, and mistrust is a little further increased and are in hospitals the sick without money or a little less treated. It remains all the same. Even if an old man lies dying. A boy is shot because he wanted to steal for his girlfriend for her birthday a lemon tree.

The language Bennis is for entirely different, not only by the telling name - whether true, the animal names of most characters, or completely euphemistically as the newspaper "democrat". It shows how arbitrary many terms are interchangeable, it shows the transience and mutability of language. And it shows the absurdity of language barriers, it does not show to-understand language, because it just should not be understood by all. Behind the language barrier but is always room for human emotions - for courage, solidarity and friendship, but also the weakness, anxiety and fear. Despite (and because) the strangeness of the language even more clearly. Also, the structures of society are clear, so when the 11-year-old Luchsi to flee to the seemingly unattainable "Here Goes Country" urges, in which he allowed to play at last.



(20 ["Here Goes Country"], 26 [mother heard the chair], 32 [on you just wait ...]; 34 [Leo shot], 43 [Warrior / reflections], 45 [Animals - > Properties], 48 [if the faith];! psychiatrisiert 76 ["left-wing extremist"]; 81 [intellectual pacifist], 85 [radio station], 88 [comment author], 100 [not happen] ...]; 102 [Professor & Squire, 108 [comic, frightened warriors], 111 [classical literature for a gun nut]; 121 [memories of youth], 130 ["In Lenin's name] 141! [Who is guilty?] 145! [Clinic], 153 [the final initial syndrome], 154f! [Mayoral], 168 [Ezekiel Luchsis father] 175! [If ...]; 183 [lemon tree] in the garden, 203 [] Journalism, 205 [] capitalism; 210 [vocabulary document] 213 [live even 250 years], 225 [Spaceships])