Stories

• 120 pages
• Series Label (Reihe ETIKETT)
• hardcover with ribbon

978-5-86638-154-4

16.00 €           

The characters in Iris Junker's short narratives are sensitive – but wherever they meet, they entrench as pachyderms behind stubborn perseverance: The encounter with Iris Junker's characters leaves a chill behind, so precise, so rigid does she tell the gaping between the aspirations, which are on the spot in the tiniest gestures and impressions, and the distances between these human models. Couples here talk to each other to conceal their depths behind word walls. Parents and children escape each other into showing their forlornness. Friends escape from solitude and togetherness into the tenuos unities of parties. She divests him of her hand like a thought, which does not want to be hold, and sits down at the table, some old table and not even wiped clean, plates and cups are still standing there, and nothing matches ... In a basic sense Iris Junker is what once was called omniscient narrator – she knows the inevitable impasses of the interhuman relations and shows them. As much as this author reveals her ensembles in the chill of crude aloofness, as close does she come as a narrator to the outsiders, namely us readers: because we have to recognize all of this and foresee everything, which is happening, imaginged and feared – and never find out of the undertow of the big »That's what it is like«.