Such ideas come to a beer with something enthemmten colleagues, or perhaps alone under the shower. A: Kafka’s “metamorphosis” just turn around: There’s a cockroach wakes up one Morning and finds himself in a “monstrous creature,” transformed – into a human namely. The other: How can you übergipfeln the insanity of the Brexit satirical? By the invention of a new economic system, the reversal of idealism. The reverses all the flows of money; those who work must pay for it, who buys, and gets to the goods nor the money. Nice ideas, you can be the next Morning or, after Drying, again to fall.
Ian McEwan has not dropped, but combined and prepared an amendment to the Anti-Brexit-Satire, “The cockroach”. Appeared in England in good time before the “final” withdrawal date of December 31. October; on English now, a while before the new, “but now really final” withdrawal date of December 31. January.
Yes, you can tell McEwan. But then the duty-that is, the Satire gets.
McEwan must be really desperate about what is happening in his England, and it is this despair, coupled with imagination and a great deal of writing routine, has made from two shots of ideas but still a good readable novel with all sorts of amusing Details, even if it fails to hit the target.
It begins just as in the case of Kafka, only the other way around: From Gregor Samsa Jim Sams, a cockroach, the English Prime Minister, waking in Downing Street no. 10 and its new form and task gradually aware of becoming. The first pages are especially pretty. “An Organ, a slippery meat-cloths, lay plump and moist in his mouth,” and he realizes, “that his history outside of useful meat in a grotesque inversion of the skeleton lay”.
The delicious exhalation of a horse manure pile
in Short, he still remembers how he, yet come as a cockroach, here – hergetippelt from his hideout in the Palace of Westminster, passing by a delicious horse dung heap, whose emanation he is aware of connoisseur stick “clearly, the nutty Aroma of soap, with a touch of Diesel, a trace of banana peel and saddle. The Horse Guards!”
Yes, you can tell McEwan. But then the duty-that is, the Satire, and the invasive cockroach controlled the Prime Minister’s calling, so far as good-natured and reluctant to be known, takes the reins in Hand and whipping his Cabinet, the Parliament, and finally the whole country to Brexit, sorry for the Reversal.
The people voted in a Referendum, accordingly, the reluctant Minister of foreign Affairs, is drawn with fake #MeToo-allegations from the traffic. The corresponding letter of the allegedly Harassed Jim Sams writes: “Nothing was as liberating as a dense web of lies. Therefore, people writer have been!”
As the letter in the newspaper appears, he to the counterfeiter, the counterfeiting is the truth: “anything could have happened, Yes, it simply had to happen. It was happened! He realized, as he raised a rebellion in Jane’s name. The foreign Minister was really a pathetic wretch.”
Also, Trump is allowed in a Brexit-a Satire not
missing Because it is difficult to convince other countries from the reversal of extremism, to propagate the extremist competition “Reversalism in one country”, abbreviated Roc, and sing the Song “Roc around the clock”. Yes, even those corny jokes McEwan not spurned. Of course Trump should not be missing in a Brexit-Satire, he is Archie Tupper, the reversal of idealism “good” and Jim Sams “great,” and Twitter of course, what the thumb has to offer.
The EU is appalled, it invites to discussions, even to a physicist from Cern that should explain whether the reversal of the money flows to the second law of thermodynamics (in that time only runs in one direction).
The madness of the Brexit with a animal conspiracy theory Ian McEwan übergipfelt:. Photo:
All right funny, but given the location not really caustic wit. Clearly, to top the insanity of the Brexit satirically, the absurdity of the reversal of magnetism, a brilliant find. But the author remains then but to long to close in the political undergrowth to hang so that it comes on the rather short track lengths.
After all, he wins the cockroach’s track, however, and a little gloss. His Minister, recognizes Jim Sams when you look in their eyes, are all transformed counterparts, with the exception of the Minister of foreign Affairs, in which he pushes only on the “blind, unyielding wall of a human Retina”. And in view of the Management of Trump/Tupper, the Premier, whether or not the is also not “one of us” asks.
The poverty strategy of the cockroaches
– this is a 300 million year-old species with a people far superior mind, because he can draw on the “collective pheromonalen sub-conscious”. The disadvantage of the man: His desires clash with his intelligence. The cockroaches, however, are “of a piece” and consistently pursue the interests of their species. And the are: the worse off the people are, the better the cockroaches. The reversal of magnetism will plunge England into poverty and misery.
So McEwan’s political Satire turns out to be ultimately as the animal conspiracy fantasy. Kafka and the existential seriousness of his “transformation” so far away, that it is necessary to specify the bond almost as a presumption. The most unfortunate idea of the amendment but it seems to be the choice of the cockroach as a mythical beast. This is because the has an unfortunate Tradition. Soviet and Chinese officials have used to describe their opponents and victims as cockroaches, and the Association “to crush” is not far off from today.
His goal, McEwan has failed, finally, because of the Brexit-insanity can indeed satirical übergipfeln, but certainly not a single Brexiteer on the detour via the reversal of magnetism of a Better teach. Certainly not by the Declaration, their minds had been occupied by cockroaches. So you put this little work of a great author, half-amused, half-surprised to the side.
The Brexit in the art
The rope to pull the exit of the UK from the EU seems to inspire all the artists. In addition to Ian McEwan, the British writer John Lanchester has processed the Brexit to the speculative novel “The wall”: great Britain is surrounded to the outlet by a wall that is intended to protect against immigrants and rising sea levels. Banksy painted “Devolved Parliament”; the painting shows the members of the lower house as a chimpanzee and was auctioned for around 12.5 million Swiss francs. Also a BBC television drama there is. In “Brexit: The Uncivil War” plays Benedict Cumberbatch, the strategists of the Leave-campaign, Dominic Cummings. (blu)
Ian McEwan: The cockroach. Amendment. From the English by Bernhard Robben. Diogenes, Zürich 2019. 132 p., approximately 28 Fr.
Created: 26.11.2019, 14:56 PM
