It was the main comeback of the year 2010 when author Peter Wawerzinek received the Klagenfurt Literature Prize for his autobiographical novel “Rabenliebe”.
Now Wawerzinek steals the language of the German literati and writes an unusual literary history of the Modern Age. The ingenious poet from (East) Germany had been a talking point with his Bukowski-like life for many years. The author’s provocative language was described as the Wawerzinek sound: his favourite exercise in the eighties was to satirize famous authors. Wawerzinek’s Christa Wolf parody “Spürfalle” was already famous in the GDR. In the meantime his parodies have grown to an impressive collection, which read like an offbeat history of German literature.
The best ones have been selected for this book. This collection is like a poetry slam of the Modern Age. Fortunately Wawerzinek, being a superb elocutionist, has read this magnificently versatile storm of ideas on the accompanying CD himself.
