What is it about?
"Eine runde Sache" was published in 2021. The book’s first part, originally written in German, describes an adventurous trip in the style of a picaresque novel. The second part, translated from Hebrew, is set in the nineteenth century and describes a journey from Java to Europe and back to Asia.
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Why is it important?
It is an important example of multilingual literature because it is written in two languages and uses different stylistic registers.
Perspectives
Gardi has the courage to entertain his audience with humor and punchlines at the expense of the bourgeois canon. References to Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit [Poetry and Truth] correspond to the narrator's idea of fiction as a lie.
Diana Hitzke
Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen
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This page is a summary of: Tomer Gardi, Eine runde Sache. Vienna: Droschl Verlag, 2021. isbn 978-3-99059-092-8. 226 pp. € 22., Journal of Literary Multilingualism, November 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/2667324x-20230209.
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