Peter Adolphsen crea una prosa concisa e potente che approfondisce la natura elusiva dell'esistenza, ispirandosi a Kafka e Borges. Le sue narrazioni sono caratterizzate da svolte inquietanti e imprevedibili che evidenziano i limiti della comprensione umana. Abbracciando sensibilità postmoderne, Adolphsen impiega la sperimentazione formale e la fluidità dei generi per sottolineare l'impossibilità di cogliere appieno la realtà. I suoi romanzi postapocalittici e filosofici esplorano spesso le dinamiche tra comunismo e capitalismo, cercando spiegazioni razionali anche per gli eventi più caotici attraverso vasti periodi di tempo.
In äußerster Verdichtung verknüpft Peter Adolphsen die Geschichte der Erde mit dem Aufeinandertreffen zweier Menschen an einem Sommertag im Jahr 1973 in Austin, Texas. Geschult an Borges und Cortázar, ausgerüstet mit Ironie und Scharfsinn, präsentiert der originellste Schriftsteller der jüngeren Generation aus Dänemark eine aberwitzige und zugleich zwingende Abfolge von Materie, Energie und dem Zufall, aus dem unser Leben besteht.
Machine is a unique piece of fiction that encapsulates the very essence of earthly existence: how chance and random events influence seemingly unconnected lives and matter. Two stories of metamorphosis entwine: the first chronicles the life of a drop of oil from its very beginning within a small prehistoric horse's heart to its combustion within a Ford car engine in Texas, the second follows the lives of the passengers within the vehicle. Clarissa picks up a hitchhiker on the Interstate to San Antonio. She is a young, intelligent student willing to experiment with LSD. The hitchhiker is Jimmy Nash, who has been granted asylum in the United States from the Soviet Union and has successfully reshaped his identity. He reads Emily Dickinson's poetry and until a horrific accident had worked on an oil field. Both their lives appear to alter in direct correlation with the changing molecular structure of this single drop of oil. From the very start the reader is seduced by the author's unusual vision of the world we live in, from the drowning of Eohippus or 'the dawn horse' fifty-five million years ago to the inhalation of carcinogenic particles by a young woman in the 1970s. The elegant prose is both lyrical and technically astounding and delivers a fascinating journey that will play on the mind and tempt an immediate second read.
Ein geheimnisvoll vibrierender Stein reist durch ganz Deutschland. Er wird vererbt, verschenkt und verkauft, und die Lebensgeschichten seiner wechselnden Besitzer quer durch das 20. Jahrhundert verknüpfen sich in der irritierenden Faszination, die von diesem Stein ausgeht.