 |  | Ror Wolf – | Pilzer and Pelzer | | (Prose II) |
fiction, new title
Edited by Kay Sokolowsky
ca. 320pp
A house, two men, a widow, numerous opponents – that’s the cast of the ‘adventure series’ PILZER UND PELZER (1967/1988). For all its qualities as entertainment, however, Ror Wolf’s ingeniously constructed anti-novel in forty chapters is still one of the most radical essays in contemporary literature.
»Wolf’s worlds are often as unsettling as those collages Max Ernst assembled from elements at once familiar, arbitrary and terrifying. That not only applies to Wolf’s own collages which resemble them, and which he has been producing for a long time as a relaxation from writing, but also to his texts. Rarely has the puzzling been so entertaining…«
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
»In his prose, his poetry and his word and sound collages Ror Wolf inimitably combines linguistic artistry and grotesque comedy with a terse and compassionate perception of reality and its fundamental constants, fear and hope, pleasure and decay. He is a master of the cryptic and utopian play with the primal matter of poetry.«
Friedrich Hölderlin Award, Jury statement
The Collected Works of Ror Wolf. The New Edition for the New Century
The annotated edition of Ror Wolf not only brings together all previously published books by Ror Wolf, but also work which appeared in out-of-the-way places or was not printed at all. It includes early drafts as well as manuscript versions and for the first time makes accessible a broad selection of essays, reviews, speeches and correspondence. An afterword by the editor describes the genesis and reception of the individual works.
About the author
Kay Sokolowsky, born 1963, studied German, history and philosophy. He is a free-lance journalist and writer and his publications include critical essays on Harald Schmidt, Alice Schwarzer and Michael Moore and their place in the media. He is preparing a biography of Ror Wolf.
He lives in Hamburg.
Ror Wolf, born in 1932, is, besides Thomas Bernhard and Arno Schmidt, one of the most idiosyncratic and prominent authors of German Literature after 1945. He is also a master of fine arts. Since the early Sixties he creates surrealistic collages. His radio dramas count among the most successful of German radio plays. Ror Wolf has received numerous awards, most recently the Friedrich Hölderlin Award in recognition of his contribution to German language and literature.
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