Ror Wolf: Continuation of the Report


Ror Wolf Werke

Ror Wolf
Continuation of the Report

Prose I
fiction
Edited by Kai U. Jürgens

296pp (62,400 words)

FORTSETZUNG DES BERICHTS, Ror Wolf’s debut, first published in 1964, has not lost anything of its subversive restlessness and disturbing pictorial force. This edition contains excerpts from earlier drafts, including those which were published in 1962 in the anthology Vorzeichen/Omens (edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger).

»Ror Wolf’s uplifting and rhythmic prose is discontinuous, fantastic and breathtakingly musical. Cinematic almost, his love for jazz, film and slapstick, for Buster Keaton and Laurel & Hardy is always palpable.«
Faust Kultur

»Wolf’s texts are impeccably unacademic. There is no hidden philosophy, no professional wordplay, no scholarly wink with the eye. His experiences do not derive from a literary life, but from his findings in a literature of our everyday life, without longing glances on so-called sensuous full narratives.«
Brigitte Kronauer

»In over forty years, Ror Wolf has created an opus that is singular in its powerful visual intricateness, its wild, chilly humour, and its magical simulation of reality. He is a classic of postmodern literature, he has been for quite a while.«
Süddeutsche Zeitung

»What would the world be without Ror Wolf.«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

»In his prose, his poetry and his word and sound collages Ror Wolf inimitably combines linguistic artistry and grotesque comedy with a terse and compassionate perception of reality and its fundamental constants, fear and hope, pleasure and decay. He is a master of the cryptic and utopian play with the primal matter of poetry.«
Friedrich Hölderlin Award, Jury statement

»A fantastic spectacle! It is exactly this fantastic accumulation of events which makes the texts so exclusive and entrancing. The truth of form manifests itself in immense clusters and their reciprocal relativization. In fact, these accumulations have been dominant for a long time in almost all areas of Western society, publicly and privately: in the supermarkets and in the news, in the disaster statistics and capital markets, even in love and death.«
DIE WELT

»Ror Wolfs debut makes me wish to forget myself, walking over into the world of books where everything has a clear end.«
Tottes Kleines Literaturlexikon

The Collected Works of Ror Wolf. The New Edition for the New Century

The annotated edition of Ror Wolf not only brings together all previously published books by Ror Wolf, but also work which appeared in out-of-the-way places or was not printed at all. It includes early drafts as well as manuscript versions and for the first time makes accessible a broad selection of essays, reviews, speeches and correspondence. An afterword by the editor describes the genesis and reception of the individual works.

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