Breathing Lessons

Breathing exercises (English Breathing Lessons ) is a novel by American author Anne Tyler, who appeared in German translation in 1988 original and 1989. In the same year, the author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this novel.

Content

Breathing exercises describes the almost clichéd couple Maggie and Ira Moran. Both are married to each other about fifty years old, and about thirty years. Ira works in a small, inherited from the father shop for picture frames; Maggie, who is described as a " shot moose ", is a housewife.

The life of this couple is now in a single day of a drive presented condensed narrative both to a wedding. However, the description falls of this trip again and again from rambling and back across to the consideration of the entire life, discussions of the crucial situations that illuminate how this couple was, what it is. Tyler's view of her two main characters is near, and understanding it; normality thus obtained seems to oscillate between the magic of the consensus have and the neuroticism and precisely because authentic.

This is the story of an elderly gentleman who thwarts the traveling couple on the highway and the Ira and Maggie then almost childish prank in which they suggest to him when overtaking, a wheel of his car was loose. But after that they return but then, led by Maggie's guilt in order to see if the old man has remained intact:

The fact that the husband of this lack of understanding (at least towards himself ) must express, but now seems, however far be like here to express displeasure, but to aim again to close. Just two people who (as always) are different, then also develop the ability to accept from the verbalization of the detachment. So then the irreconcilable seems reconciled and the neurosis yet added a certain sense, so a girlfriend at the wedding just herein, " ... sit with a ordinary, normal husband on a sofa [ to ] and a thousand years away [ to ] see "( 119) wants to see the highest happiness.

At the very least, the author is able to breathing exercises a far so hardly vorzufindenden in the literature looking at a normality to offer, which is otherwise little reclaimed. You can convey that happiness and life are not in irreconcilable opposition to each other.

• Literary work
• Novel, epic
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )