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review - Friedmar Apel, "Nanette memory"

at a seminar I had Friedmar Apel's novel Nanette read memory. " I knew neither the author nor the title and jumped into the deep end. The immersion into the world of synesthete Nanette, who is sitting in a psychiatric hospital and tries to remember her past, has paid off.

seen at her parents house she disputes with their parents. Nanette mother hates it and let the frustration out of her father, who, as scholars in their eyes, worth nothing. Nanette describes how she experienced her childhood in Berlin, as their ability, words, numbers, letters, and all the senses to perceive color, it affects the basic school and how they can remember all during their training period as a bookseller, book title. The reader moves with her in Berlin by a local pub to the next scene, her experience with the celebrities and the whole Kulturschickeria (by Max Frisch to Udo Waltz), and also met Nanette debauched love life. She gets to know Dutschke, who falls in love with her. She travels to Frankfurt, where her father an art exhibition has organized, and from here begins perhaps the whole mess. Maybe even earlier.

Between the flashbacks (they must write down their memories) Nanette analyzed together with the Russian psychiatrist Professor Luria their physical and mental condition. Gradually comes out that Nanette is imprisoned for a crime in the hospital to which she remembers only slowly.

The book is exciting - in many ways. The topic of synaesthesia is exotic, the Berlin of the 80s/90s is charming with all its colorful personalities and anecdotes. It is a journey into the past, a trip to various pubs, bars, lounges literature and famous people from real life. The whole attitude to life comes alive in Nanette descriptions.

Living History, but especially by the main character Nanette. It is impossible to figure out is also authentic. Is particularly interesting is the question of how reliable Nanette as a narrative figure - after she has lain in a vegetative state following the mysterious accident, is in a psychiatric hospital, takes medication and is due to unidentified problems, psychosis, trauma therapy. How clear and true, their conclusions that it draws at the end and drives to radical actions? Only their match now and then very childish and simple language in some places not to dieser ansonsten intelligenten Gedächtniskünstlerin.

Friedmar Apel: Nanettes Gedächtnis (137 Seiten)

Suhrkamp Verlag, Februar 2009
ISBN-10: 3518420534
ISBN-13: 978-3518420539