Adele von Leïla Slimani, Taschenbuch, Gegenwartsliteratur, Neu

 
Unverkennbar ist 'Adele' ein Buch, das nicht nur die Seiten füllt, sondern auch die dunklen Ecken der Seele ausleuchtet. Es ist die Geschichte einer Frau, die auf der Suche nach Authentizität durch ein Labyrinth der Begierde irrt. Mit jeder Seite, die man umblättert, fragt man sich, ob Adele jemals finden wird, was sie sucht, oder ob sie in ihren eigenen Abgründen verloren geht. Es ist ein Tanz auf dem Vulkan der menschlichen Psyche, ein literarisches Werk, das den Leser fesselt und gleichzeitig herausfordert. Die Charaktere sind so lebendig, dass man fast vergisst, dass es sich nur um Buchstaben auf Papier handelt. Und während man lacht, weint und mitfiebert, wird man Teil von Adeles Welt – einer Welt, die so komplex ist wie ein guter Wein und manchmal genauso bitter.

 
PressestimmenWritten in prose of elegant but never bloodless neutrality . . . [Adèle] leads readers through the labyrinth of desire into an understanding of solitude, isolation and the search for authenticity as our common fate. ― IndependentNo man would have dared write what she did. It's an extraordinary first novel. -- Alain Mabanckou'Slimani's slender, elegantly written and translated novel is filled with such disturbing images, and her capacity to shock will come as little surprise to readers of her previous novel, Lullaby, which opened by revealing the brutal aftermath of the murder of two small children. And in that novel, too, she took us into the painful, tumbled vortex of female subjectivity, with its complex trade-offs between obligation and appetite, its desire for liberation tussling with the question of what that liberation might yield...Adèle is a tough read, but a bracing one; little concerned with reader-pleasing narrative treats, but provocatively enigmatic. Appearing to adopt the conventions of realism - despite being sparely written, it is filled with physical detail, from an encounter in a freezing back alley to the "immense black-and-white photograph of derelict Cuban theatre" that decorates a fancy Parisian apartment - it eventually becomes increasingly dream-like, the compulsions of its characters (and not merely Adèle) revealed as the manifestation of suppressed desires and dysfunction. And it is not a dream from which it seems immediately possible to waken.' -- Alex Clark ― Guardian'Slimani evokes the "prosaic vulgarity of these dismal couplings in unsparingly lucid prose, elegrantly translated by Sam Taylor. She finds images for Adèle's howling loneliness in the objects and decor that witness her adventures....Slimani's journey through the brambly gardens of lust has affinities with the libertine tradition of French prose. It nods to the tainted literary lineage of the Marquis de Sade...As the wayward wife of a dull medic,Adèle also pays inevitable homage to Flaubert's Madame Bovary...Adèle tries to love her comfy rural prison. But the demons will not let her go. She dreams still of violent sex with unknown men "until they have driven out the sorrow, until they have silenced the fear that lurks deep inside her". In taut, lithe prose, Slimani's novel digs for the roots of that sorrow and that fear. Its clarity only deepens its compassion. Yet a sense of mystery abides. Out of that darkness, the "shadow" behind Adèle, Slimani has made a tender and troubling novel rather than a psychiatric tract.' -- Boyd Tonkin ― Financial Times'Although Adèle's life follows the familiar cycle of an addict (deception, overdose, abstinence, relapse), this is not a novel about addiction. It would be too easy for Slimani to pathologise Adèle. Instead, she presents her compulsions as a sort of spiritual restlessness...Slimani is one of the few contemporary authors - along, perhaps, with Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy - writing intelligently about motherhood today...the tight pacing and spare style that had readers hooked to Lullaby is still here. It might not have the same shock factor, but this quieter novel looks at loneliness, shame and the search for independence in a way that is just as thrilling.' -- Louisa McGillicuddy ― The Sunday Times'This pacey page-turner is an easy read that keeps you guessing about how Adèle's fate will unravel, and while her destructive actions are often nightmarish, she's a character that anyone who has ever felt a little unsatisfied with life should be able to relate to.' ― Press Association'Slimani is a fearless writer who pulls back the curtain to show what secretly thrills and terrifies women...a riveting and psychologically rich novel, its final pages particularly stirring. Adèle's problems might be specific (she has a pathological compulsion) but the frustration they stem from is universal. It's a story that will strike a chord with many women.' -- Johanna Thomas-Corr ― Ev

 
Innovativ ist, dass dieses Buch die dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Begierde erkundet.

 
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