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Oliver Schütte. «Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines»: Die Kunst der Dialoggestaltung. Konstanz u. München: UVK Verlagsgesellschaft, 2016. 278 Seiten. Der Titel des handlichen und ansprechend gestalteten Taschenbuchs lässt aufhorchen. «Schau mir in die Augen, Kleines» – sagt das nicht Humphrey Bogart zu Ingrid Bergmann in «Casablanca»? In seinem Ratgeber zur Dialoggestaltung entlarvt Oliver Schütte …
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«On the desktop there was an old manual Underwood with a piece of paper rolled into the carriage, a paragraph arrested in midphrase, and beside the typewriter a neat pile of paper, the uppermost sheet half covered in single-spaced text.» Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys «Auf der Schreibtischplatte stand eine alte mechanische Underwood, in die ein Blatt …
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In his talk with Karl Ove Knausgaard at a Guardian Live Book event earlier this year, interviewer John Mullan elaborates on «the importance of circumstantial detail» in literature – not just in Knausgaard’s autobiographical series of novels, but ever since the inception of the British novel in the 18th century. To conjure up and create presence Knausgaard resorts to …
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The more I think and write about Michael Chabon’s wonderful novel Wonder Boys and the movie by the same title, the more I feel infected and, for that matter, inflicted by his protagonist’s embarras de richesse – flooded with grandiose ideas, trenchant quotes and highfalutin intentions. «The only part of my world that carried on, …
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