Title : German Pig - Knud Romer - Book
Summary :
What does it mean to be a German woman in a small Danish town a few years after the end of World War II? What does it mean to be the son of such a mother and a Danish father? How does it feel to be called a "German pig" at every recess? To witness the constant ostracism of one's mother? Knud Romer knows this - having been that "German pig" in Nykøbing Falster, where he was born in 1960 and grew up. He has kept terrible memories of it, which he carried with him for years before describing the hell he experienced - disguised as an ordinary childhood - in his novel German Pig, published in 2006 in Denmark. An autobiographical work, then, a roman à clef certainly, a settling of scores without doubt. But above all, a literary work of the first order, the evocation of a world that is in no way reduced to the small provincial town: for the author, his own story is above all the story of his family, his parents, his grandparents. By speaking of them, he takes us back in time, and the horizon broadens: a series of brief sequences takes the characters through Germany in the 1930s and during the war; then to Denmark at the same time. The novel is detailed and colorful, written with a vigorous and scintillating style. While describing the growing isolation of a family, it depicts its increasingly twisted psychological predispositions: from self-destructive neurosis to malicious cruelty, persecution, and death. German Pig, full of hyperbole and ambiguity, almost resembles a tall tale. The humor, which is found throughout the novel, unites its diverse threads and helps make its brutalities more bearable. It is a personal, raw, and sincere account that deeply touches the reader. In short, a small book of great beauty, without a false note, dense and compact.
- EAN: 9782922868623
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