L'opera di Noémi Lefebvre approfondisce l'intricata intersezione tra personale e politico. I suoi romanzi esplorano come l'identità individuale venga plasmata da forze sociali e storiche. Attraverso uno stile acuto e perspicace, svela le complessità delle relazioni adulte e dell'autopercezione. La sua scrittura offre un esame provocatorio di come i destini personali si intreccino con contesti politici e culturali più ampi.
In this new novel by the acclaimed author of Blue Self-Portrait, a poet- narrator existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under the Third Reich muddles through a national state of emergency. Their ten lessons to today's young poets form a blistering treatise on survival skills for the wilfully idle.
A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore. Noemi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us, addressing past trauma while reaching for possible futures.