Friedhof der bitteren Orangen

This is the novel of someone who set out not to forget the fear that keeps him alive. In Southern Italy, where Catholicism is at its strongest, the former Carinthian altar boy collects dozens of gruesomely entertaining stories of misfortune and death that do not appear in any calendar, and then buries them page by page in the crypts of his novel, which is modeled after a Neapolitan pauper's cemetery, the Campo Santo della Pietà. "Here, one must not and cannot remain silent, so that others cannot impose their soothing language on him; here, one must and wants to speak, so that everyone around him can hear what turmoil they have caused, what disturbances they now have to endure. ... With Josef Winkler's latest descent into hell, this horror trip into sacrilege, we are pushing the boundaries of what can be narrated." Ludwig Harig.