 |  | Ror Wolf – | Continuation of the Report | | (Prose I) |
fiction, new title
Edited by Kai U. Jürgens
ca. 320pp
FORTSETZUNG DES BERICHTS, Ror Wolf’s debut, first published in 1964, has not lost anything of its subversive restlessness and disturbing pictorial force. This edition contains excerpts from earlier drafts, including those which were published in 1962 in the anthology 'Vorzeichen/Omens' (edited by Hans Magnus Enzensberger).
»In over forty years, Ror Wolf has created an opus that is singular in its powerful visual intricateness, its wild, chilly humour, and its magical simulation of reality. He is a classic of postmodern literature, he has been for quite a while.«
Süddeutsche Zeitung
»What would the world be without Ror Wolf.«
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
Kai U. Jürgens, born 1966, studied literature and in 1999 completed his doctoral thesis on Ror Wolf. He has since written on contemporary themes in literature, film, art and music and works for publishing houses, daily newspapers and radio stations. He has a wide-ranging commitment to the work of Ror Wolf and is one of the initiators of the website www.wirklichkeitsfabrik.de
He lives in Kiel.
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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