UrwindCarcanet, 1996 - 189 pagina's In Urwind, on the face of it a simple tale of a Helsinki antiquarian bookseller whose wife has abandoned him, there is a complex layering of experience, past and present. The telling is more a matter of inner than outer events - intimate, rapt. In the ur-vind', or primordial attic, are stored not only relics from the story-teller's past, but also memories of the neighbours, friends and relations who inhabited the apartment house in which he was brought up. The ur-vind' is also the cosmic wind, blowing from beyond the reassuring walls of houses and apartments. And it is the story-teller's name Daniel Urwind, in whom is focused a wealth of literary and artistic allusions and antecedents that include the Merz-Bau of Kurt Schwitters, the paintings of Cezanne and the fiction of Kafka. |
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Anna arms autumn bar counter Beda blows blue BO CARPELAN Book of Daniel breath chair child closed clouds cold colour Daniel dark dead door doppelgänger dream earth empty everything eyes face faint falls Fanny floor Fredrik funfair gaze gleaming gone Granny grey hair hand hear heavy Herman hovering hurled invisible Jean Gabin kitchen lamp leans Lena lift light listen live look Mamma Maria Master of Arts metamorphoses millimetre mirror Mont Sainte-Victoire moon mouth move night pale Papa perhaps rear courtyard remember rises Rosendal says secondhand bookshop shadows sharp visual shouting silent sleep slowly smell smiles snow someone sorrow staircase stairs stand Stig Stilén stop strange streets suddenly summer tobacco smoke trees turned Umberto D unease Urwind Viktoria voice walk walls weightless whirling wind window
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