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Arnold Stadler Sehnsucht. Versuch über das erste Mal Longing. An attempt at the first time a novel new in paperback spring 2011 "Sometimes it seems to me that I've fallen through life because nobody really told how it goes." "I used to be scared of Death. Now I was scared of having to spend Father's Day on my own". Inherently funny and at the same time morbidly sad that old "Stadler tone" is back, in this much awaited novel fom the author of the best seller "A Charming Scrap Dealer". Arriving from Berlin, the storyteller is the yearning existentialist Arnold Stadler travelling through Germany's Lüneburger Heide. Near Schnackenburg on the Elbe he discovers two lovers and becomes a voyeur, in Bleckede he holds a lecture and in the wellness center of a three-star spa in Fallingbostel he runs into Angelika, his first love. The eddy of ardent desire leads to the sea, to memories of the last summer of youth. In "Longing. An attempt at the first time", Arnold Stadler spans a bridge from childhood to the world of maturity. "Pain's hinterland" is everywhere. "Approach misfortune with wantonness. This could be an article in the Stadler Law of Writing". Peter Hamm in his laudatio for the 1999 Georg Büchner Prize winner.

Versuch über das erste Mal. Roman

»Mein Buch könnte auch die Autobiographie eines Schwanzes sein.« Arnold Stadler

Arnold Stadlers Ich-Erzähler – Melancholiker, Mitte vierzig, verheiratet – befindet sich auf einer Vortragsreise. Je weiter er kommt, desto größer wird seine Sehnsucht nach dem richtigen Leben. Voller Verzweiflung, aber zugleich auch voller Selbstironie streift er durch die Landschaft – in dem Versuch, sich aus seiner Schieflage zu befreien.

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ARNOLD STADLER EIN HINREISSENDER SCHROTTHÄNDLER / A CAPTIVATING JUNK MAN A Novel, 237 pp. “Wise and at the same time so funny that one is laughing tears.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung “Stadler’s prose is full of comedy and dead-pan jokes with a doubting tone akin to Thomas Bernhard, where love of the world and a disgust for it are chlinched in constant battle. Like no other writer of his generation Stadler has understood how to rehabilitate desire as an existential feeling of life.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A ravishing visitor stands at the door: a young man in Adidas running pants named Adrian. At this point, the early-retired history teacher, a »graduate dreamer«, and his wife Gabi, the Hanseatic hand surgeon realize it is too late to start over as Adam and Eve. 	 »Do you love me?« »I knew it, before you asked« The story of a marriage told in the humorous satirical »Stadler tone«. Is Gabi in love with the junk man Adrian and not with him? Has he perhaps fallen out of love with her but in love with the junk man too? »A sandwich style marriage?« It all comes alive again with a return to the scene of their wedding night: the royally blond Rosemarie who was his first love, and the desire of an almost forgotten childhood in the upper Swabian hometown in the boondocks. »I, however, was going mad because of this story, even if only temporarily«. »My wife and I; we've lived together for twenty-five years, we're a story, that I only know the half of«. Arnold Stadler was born in Messkirch, Germany in 1954 and grew up on a farm in the neighboring village of Rast. He was awarded several literary prizes, most important in 1999 the Georg-Büchner-Prize. To date some of his published works include the poetry collection Kein Herz und keine Seele. Man muss es singen können (No Heart and no Soul. One Has to Be Able to Sing It) 1986, the novels Ich war einmal (I Was Once) 1989, Feuerland (Fireland) 1992, Mein Hund,meine Sau und mein Leben (My Dog, My Sow, My Life) 1994, Der Tod und ich, wir zwei (Death and I, We Two) 1996, the novel Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler (Junk Man) 2000, Sehnsucht (Longing) 2003, the speech Erbarmen mit dem Seziermesser (Pity with a Scalpel), the anthology Tohuwabohu (both 2002) and on Adalbert Stifter Mein Stifter, 2005. Rights sold to: Taiwan (iFront)

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Abwrackprämie war gestern – jetzt kommt der Schrotthändler

»Liebst du mich?« – »Bevor du fragtest, wusste ich es noch.« Der Schrotthändler Adrian bringt das Leben der Eheleute schnell durcheinander – und der Erzähler findet sich ohne Frau und Geld wieder.

ARNOLD STADLER

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Sehnsucht

Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler