Ein Jahr im Leben einer Infantin

Rosa Pock presents a continuation of her prose volume "A Half Year in the Life of an Infant" after two and a half decades. Journal-like entries such as dream protocols, micro-narratives, or (self-)observations evoke our existential themes, which are only marginally addressed by philosophy today. The dynamics of the text arise from intense desire – concentrated in the first part on a charismatic nonconformist referred to as a "fool" – and express the ongoing effort to gain insight into the order of things and the mechanisms of language, connecting this with the question "How can one live?" Throughout the two "half years," the infant traverses a space of thought and feeling that is both individual and universal, situated between art, science, and boundary dissolution, functioning as a "speaking machine." In her new book, Rosa Pock successfully completes a magnificent poetic-philosophical work of astonishing precision and subtle humor.