Lob der Sprache, Glück des Schreibens

Pointed glosses, elegant essays, cultural-critical polemics, self-ironic narrative: Karl-Markus Gauss, one of the greatest stylists of contemporary literature (Günther Kaindlstorfer), has many forms and pitches. Everyday life in the world is the unknown territory he has been exploring literarily for thirty years, astute, learned and witty. In this first collection of his little prose, he tells of the simple and the confusing things in life, of the promises of progress and his own prejudices, of world-famous media figures and forgotten writers. Whatever he writes about, the armament of sexuality, the abolition of embarrassment, mother tongues as the source of self-confidence, fantasy and revolt, he always convinces with the originality of his thoughts, the elegance of his language. In his own as well as with a light hand made.