Dear Life
Love life. 14 stories ( in the original Dear Life. Stories, 2012) is Alice Munro's fourteenth collection of short stories. In these recent works by Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2013, among other things told about variants of dealing with what at first seems strange, as well as the Versönlichwerden - even with himself
For the first time in a collection of Munro, a further group of works. It consists of four stories and is titled finale. One half of the stories of the tape includes in the original language between pages 13 and 20 pages, the other half 23-40 pages. "Voices " with 13 pages, the shortest, " train " with a length of 40 pages the most extensive work in the collection. Among the works " Amundsen ", "Farewell to Maverly ", "homestead " and " train " Alice Munro has said in an interview from November 2012 itself.
A German -language version of the band 2013 has been published by S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main, in the translation by Heidi Zerning. A selection in the translation of Reinhild Boehnke 2013 is pre- published as an audio book Love Life at Parlando in Berlin, read by Christian Brückner and Sophie Rois.
Effect
In addition to the majority laudatory reviews there are on this volume also a contribution which can be regarded as slating. Christian Lorentzen has taken in June 2013 for the London Review of Books, the appearance of Dear Life as an opportunity to give his fundamental skepticism expressed in terms of the work of Munro and especially the reception, which is critical to him. At the end of his review he comes to the band Dear Life to speak. In it there are some more stories about abandonment ( in men), a story about dementia from the perspective of a demented person and two stories about asexual men who flee away from intimacy. Lorentzen said that the sketches of the Coda (Finale ) would explicitly presented as autobiographical and recognizable from the earlier books included: the house at the end of the road, being beaten, prudery in the village life, and an appendectomy, in which also a growth is found. Sex and cancer are two taboos that no longer existed now, and it could not well be written about enough. The time will return longs, in which it had been more innocent and more shame, and this seems to explain a lot of respect Munros popularity so Lorentzen's conclusion. Lifting Lorentzen does the story " Japan reach ". The fact that after so many stories with a scheme " sad woman is happier " grant was inevitable, writes Christian Lorentzen and makes for " years later " three points, stop its review.
Included works
- Japan reach (To Reach Japan), p.7
- Amundsen ( Amundsen Web), p 39
- Farewell to Maverly (Leaving Maverly ), p 81
- Gravel ( Gravel ) on the web, same version, S. 109
- Home Instead ( Haven ), p 131
- Stolz ( Pride ), p 157
- Corrie ( Corrie on the web), p 181
- Train (Train Web, previous version), p 205
- With Lake View ( In Sight of the Lake ), p 253
- Dolly ( Dolly ), p 271
Final
- The Eye ( The Eye ), p 299
- Night ( Night ), p 315
- Voices (voices ), p 331
- Love life ( Dear Life Web, previous version)
Reviews
Chronologically ascending
- Catherine Taylor, Dear Life by Alice Munro: review. ' Dear Life ' by Alice Munro is a collection of stories unraveling the mystery in the domestic, telegraph.co.uk, November 15, 2012.
- Charles McGrath, The Sense of an Ending. Dear Life, Stories by Alice Munro nytimes.com, November 16, 2012
- Ruth Scurr, Dear Life by Alice Munro: review. Alice Munro's spectacular collection of stories, Dear Life, Perhaps her load, is oddly autobiographical, says Ruth Scurr telegraph.co.uk, November 21, 2012
- Louise Doughty, Dear Life by Alice Munro - review. Lauded Canadian short- story writer Alice Munro gives tantalizing glimpses of her own life in this fine collection, theguardian.com, November 25, 2012.
- Gordon House, Alice Munro stays on track with her winning short stories in her new collection, ' Dear Life ', kansas.com, February 17, 2013
- Christian Lorentzen, "Poor Rose. Against Alice Munro. Review of Dear Life by Alice Munro ", in: London Review of Books, Vol 35 No. 11 · June 6, 2013, pp. 11-12. ( A Round-Up, only the last part is in this volume. )