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Un cazzo ebreo (Italian Edition) (edição: 2021)

de Katharina Volckmer (Autor)

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"In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the recent death of her grandfather, and an unexpected inheritance, make it clear that you cannot easily outrun your own shame, whether it be physical, familial, historical, national, or all of the above. Or can you? With Dr. Seligman's help, our narrator will find out. In a monologue that is both deliciously dark and subversively funny, she takes us on a wide-ranging journey from Hitler-centered sexual fantasies and overbearing mothers to the medicinal properties of squirrel tails and the notion that anatomical changes can serve as historical reparation."--Provided by publisher.… (mais)
Membro:francescocaligiuri
Título:Un cazzo ebreo (Italian Edition)
Autores:Katharina Volckmer (Autor)
Informação:La nave di Teseo (2021), 75 pages
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Etiquetas:narrativa, inglese, donne, nazismo

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The Appointment: A Novel de Katharina Volckmer

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The Appointment uses transgressive humor (which, in fact, is actually quite funny!) to address two major, and majorly serious, themes: German post-holocaust attitudes towards Jews and historical guilt, and transgenderism. There are also a host of other themes addressed, such as feminism, sex with machines, social media, parent-child relations, melancholia. All in a fairly slim novel, an impressive achievement.

With the subtitle "Or, The Story of a Jewish Cock" and an opening line of, "I know that this might not be the best moment to bring this up, Dr. Seligman, but it just came to my mind that I once dreamt that I was Hitler", Volckmer clearly sets out her stall, either attracting or repelling the reader. She comes out all guns blazing with the humor - speaking of Germans on page 2:
Our throats never get wet enough to suck anyone with devotion because we were all raised on too much dry bread. You know that horrible bread we eat and tell everyone about, like some sort of self-perpetuating myth? I think it's a punishment from God for all the crimes we have committed, and forthwith nothing as sensual as a baguette or as moist as the blueberry muffins they serve here will ever come out of that country.


And then about a dozen pages later, the narrator describing a lie she told to her therapist:
I think Jason actually winced when I told him how I had been daydreaming about my little A, that's how I called Hitler by myself, making me say "My name is Sarah" before punishing me with his mighty crop... Jason promised to sign anything attesting to my calm and placid nature if he never had to listen again to me telling him how I had gotten into the habit of coming on little portraits of the Fuhrer, imaging his moustache tickling my soft parts.


And yet the cliché that the comedian is using humor to cover up pain and sadness comes into play shortly, and here's where the book soars above and beyond whatever you may be thinking of it thus far. Volckmer writes of the torment of feeling "other" and the perhaps inherent sadness of the human condition with great skill and feeling. On not being what we're supposed to be:
I don't know why our brains are like that, but K has taught me that if we try to grow feathers without people expecting us to fly, they will shoot us from the sky and their dogs will shake us to make sure our necks are broken before we are chucked into a bag and disposed of. Our brains can just about tolerate a cat with a missing tail or three legs, but any additions, anything the cat was not supposed to have been born with, will never be accepted... no barking cat has ever conquered the sky.


The narrator's relationship with "K", a man she had an affair with, plays a significant role in fact in this story. K is an artist who appears to have battled depression from an early age. The most gaspingly honest, and beautifully written passage, for me comes when the narrator recounts K describing to her his daydream of hanging himself from a tree outside his house:
... that image from my parents' garden, the tree I know so well, and all those different shades of green and grey and brown and my little body hanging against the beautiful backdrop of the last light of the day, and possibly some snow on the ground, the last warmth from my little body visible in the cold winter air - that image doesn't scare me. That image is my only source of comfort, it's the only thing that I've always believed in, the only freedom I possess. It's what allows me to get out of bed in the morning after thinking just an hour before that today I wouldn't be able to. I find sleep at night in the knowledge that this image will always be there. That this tree is still growing branches strong enough to take a life.


So yes, the transgressive Hitler and sex humor is showy and attention grabbing and worth exploring, and even funny, but it's the grave darkness that makes me love this little novel. Just wait, and like the narrator says near the end, "... and you have to believe me when I say that I usually act out of a profound sense of sadness and despair. If we were to wait until the soft darkness of the early morning, somewhere between three and four, you would be able to see it shining through, Dr. Seligman - the face that is buried underneath all the jokes." ( )
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
Un monologue qui commence par de la bonne grosse blague, un gynéco entre les cuisses.

Et tout ça se prolonge un peu trop pour qu’il ne soit question que de ça, et derrière un texte décousu qui se déroule comme une conversation avec soi-même apparaissent des indices qui font de ce livre bien plus qu’une franche rigolade ( )
  noid.ch | Oct 18, 2021 |
Sarah, die Erzählerin, befindet sich in einer exklusiven Londoner Klinik. Während Dr Seligman sie behandelt, sprudelt es geradezu aus ihr heraus. Es wird ein intimes Geständnis über ihre Beziehungen, ihre Sexualität, die schwierige Beziehung mit ihrem Psychologen Jason, aber auch ihre Obsession mit Hitler und den Nazis; über die Scham, die sie als Frau, als Tochter, als Deutsche empfindet. Es gibt kein Tabu, das sie bei diesem Termin nicht bricht, kein Vorurteil über ihre Heimat, das sie nicht leichter Hand vom Tisch wischt. Eine Konsultation der anderen Art.

„Ich will Sie nicht provozieren, Dr. Seligman, erst recht nicht hetzt, da Sie ihren Kopf zwischen meinen Beinen haben, aber (…)“

Genau das ist es jedoch, was die deutsche Autorin Katharina Volckmer, die in London lebt und ihren Debutroman „Der Termin“ in englischer Sprache verfasste, erreichen möchte. In Interviews betont sie stets, dass ihr Text auf Deutsch und für ein deutsches Publikum nicht funktioniert. Zu sehr wären Leser schockiert von den Offenbarungen und der Abrechnung mit der fehlgeschlagenen Vergangenheitsbewältigung, die sich hinter der Prüderie und Pedanterie verstecke.

Es ist vor allem die Verbindung von Holocaust und Sexualität, die irritiert. Dass die Erzählerin ein Fetisch für Männer hat, die sie dominieren, unterwerfen, ausnutzen, missbrauchen, ist eine Sache. Ob ihr Wunsch nach Transition aus dem Gedanken, den totgeborenen Bruder ersetzen zu wollen - sie, die Nachgeburt, der übrig geblieben Zellhaufen - resultiert, bleibt unklar. Keine Zweifel gibt es jedoch daran, dass sie in ihrer eigenen Wahrnehmung als Tochter den elterlichen Erwartungen nie gerecht werden konnte und dass sie zu der Erkenntnis gekommen ist, als Frau immer nur Mensch zweiter Klasse zu sein.

Bewusst fordert sie den jüdischen Arzt heraus, will ihn schockieren, ihn, der geschichtsbedingt auf der anderen Seite steht, keine Schuld mit sich trägt wie sie, für ewig die Absolution erhalten hat und über jeder Form von Anschuldigung steht. Dies erlaubt es ihm auch zu schweigen, er scheint zwar Fragen zu stellen, doch werden diese nicht widergegeben und könnten ebenso schlicht Sarahs Gedankenfluss entspringen.

Ob das Buch wirklich tiefgründig ist oder doch nur oberflächlich reizen möchte, ist tatsächlich schwer zu sagen, immerhin hat der Roman in der internationalen Presse viel Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Die Frage danach, was die eigene Identität ausmacht, inwieweit Erziehung insbesondere bezogen auf das Geschlecht und damit verbundene Erwartungen formen bzw. inwieweit die Geschichte unserer Familie, unseres Landes sich auswirkt, eine andere. Bisweilen schwer zu ertragen ob der brutalen und schamlosen Wortwahl – umgekehrt mit dem Schluss des Kreises, indem sie am Ende wieder zu ihrem Ausgangsthema, den Nazis und ihre eigene familiäre Schuld, zurückkehrt, jedoch überzeugend konstruiert. ( )
  miss.mesmerized | Sep 18, 2021 |
De afspraak. Door Katharina Volckmer.

Een boek dat leest als een golf die je in één lange ademteug overspoelt, je wereld op zijn kop zet en als je naar adem happend weer boven water komt doet beseffen dat je jezelf niet meer bent. Dat is De afspraak.

Volckmer schreef geen roman, ze schreef een allesomvattende monoloog, opgevoerd door een jonge Duitse vrouw die met haar benen gespreid in de behandelingsstoel van een Joodse arts in Engeland ligt. Deze vrouw is eerlijk, nietsontziend, intelligent, feministisch en wars van schone schijn. De afgesproken, onuitgesproken regels tussen mensen neemt zij niet langer voor lief. Alles en iedereen wordt vakkundig gefileerd, beoordeeld en in vraag gesteld. Kindeke Jezus, Lebkuchen, de tijgerkooi, seksrobotten, de pofbroek van Hitler, het persoonlijke van angst en de schoonheid van een lichaam dat zijn laatste warmte afgeeft zijn maar enkele voorbeelden.

De schrijfstijl van Volckmer doet me denken aan Stella Bergsma: recht voor de raap, spits, hyper intelligent, behoorlijk afwijkend en altijd raak. Iemand die schrijft wat anderen denken maar niet durven zeggen. (Indien die anderen over een even geweldig brein beschikken als deze twee dames.) Het is ook een stijl die makkelijker aanvaard wordt van een man dan van een vrouw. Leve vrouwen met ‘een grote mond’.

Mijn eerste boek van 2021 was meteen een voltreffer. Wat een debuut! ( )
  Els04 | Jan 5, 2021 |
Strange Psycho-Sexual Stream of Consciousness
Review of the Fitzcarraldo Editions paperback edition (September 2020)

The Appointment is a one-sided verbal stream of consciousness by a woman who is attending a procedure being performed by a Dr. Seligman. The type of procedure is initially undisclosed, but it becomes very evident after several reveals along the way.

The rant by the patient goes off on several offensive tangents that speculate on everything from Hitler's sex life, a love/hate fascination with Jews, female/male relations, and an obsessive detailing of the patient's personal history of reckless violence and sexual behaviour.

As bizarre as it is, The Appointment is still compulsively readable, as you just can't stop wanting to read it to see how weird is it going to get. I'm hesitant to recommend it, as I think most will be turned off within several pages (the Hitler stuff does stop after a while though). Let's say this, if you could handle Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" (2006) (which you don't read it so much as survive it) then you can probably handle The Appointment. Others beware.

I read The Appointment as the July 2020 book perk from my support of The Republic of Consciousness Prize for small independent publishers. ( )
  alanteder | Sep 1, 2020 |
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"In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the recent death of her grandfather, and an unexpected inheritance, make it clear that you cannot easily outrun your own shame, whether it be physical, familial, historical, national, or all of the above. Or can you? With Dr. Seligman's help, our narrator will find out. In a monologue that is both deliciously dark and subversively funny, she takes us on a wide-ranging journey from Hitler-centered sexual fantasies and overbearing mothers to the medicinal properties of squirrel tails and the notion that anatomical changes can serve as historical reparation."--Provided by publisher.

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