Works by: Philine Kuhn, Mathilde Schliebe, Mareike Hornof (picture), Thomas Schoen | Exhibition on the book “The Shadow of the Coachman’s Body” by Peter Weiss
Works by: Philine Kuhn, Mathilde Schliebe, Mareike Hornof (picture), Thomas Schoen
Peter Weiss, best known for his great novel Aesthetics of Resistance, published his first German-language work after exile in 1960 with the micro-novel The Shadow of the Coachman's Body. A narrative experiment whose originality caused a sensation even then and influenced many after him.
All we know about the narrator of the novel is that he is a guest in some isolated farmstead among other bizarre characters and has finally managed to overcome his severe crisis and writer's block by deciding to focus solely and exclusively on the things and events that he encounters in his immediate surroundings......bis the limits of the ability of language to depict observation.
The reading series, which was accompanied each time by a different artist who simultaneously created new works and perspectives on the text, is now being exhibited at Galerie Hinten.