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Janet Frames novel "When owls scream"

Janet Frame processed her tragic life story in their books.

 "Look. Forget. Will Blind"

 Janet frames novel "When owls scream"

 Janet Frame was one of the most successful writers in New Zealand. Her autobiography, "An Angel at My Table" was filmed by Jane Campion 1990. Most was the subject of her tragic life of her books. Her novel "When owls scream" is now published in German again.

New Zealand, the green island, far away - a land of desire. There, the writer Janet Frame was born and raised. But for your home is anything but gorgeous. She grew up in abject poverty. Her childhood is marked by misery and unhappiness: Two sisters drown, a brother is epileptic. She even get a diagnosis of schizophrenia and is put into a mental hospital.

"The long corridor outside shines as the leather of a new shoe, which is a being that goes with ghosts step on itself, on its own luster, down to the room, the women in nightgowns waiting for on the nine-Clock-terror, electric shocks called. Look. Forget. Will blind. Crook you, without knowing why. "
(Janet Frame: "When owls scream")

 Childhood Cruel World

Electric shocks Janet Frame knows from her own clinic time. More than 200 pieces she must endure. After a suicide attempt lands her in the hospital. For eight years she must remain. Later it turns out that she was the victim of a misdiagnosis. What was she who saved was the letter. In all her books, she handles her own story. "When owls scream" is her first novel. He tells of a cruel childhood world and the destiny of four siblings. The children play in a landfill - a metaphor not only for waste, but also a treasure trove of unusual treasures. And they are lucky, you will find a copy of "Grimm's Fairy Tales".

"They had thrown away because it no longer spoke the language, and people could not read it anymore because she no longer found their way into his world." (Janet Frame: "When owls scream")

The book is a gift, because fairy tales give hope and even the language into a fantasy world. Janet Frame is inspired by fairy tales. Her debut novel, "When owls scream" In the early 1960s appeared once before in German. Now he is discovered in a newly revised version again.

Janet Frame was proposed several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, most recently in 2003. A year later, the writer died at the age of 79.

5.10.2012 / Maren Adler

German version

Janet Frame
Übersetzung: Ruth Malchow und Karen Nölle
"Wenn Eulen schrein"
Beck 2012
ISBN-13: 978-3406630019 © Beck

Janet Frame
Translation: Karen Ruth Malchow and Noelle
"When owls scream"
Beck 2012
ISBN-13: 978-3406630019 © Beck

German Original

Translation with Google Translator

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