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Author Maron in her garden near Penkun, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: "There was no blood"
Photo: Sebastian Wells / Ostkreuz
What's this?
A peace offer?
A gesture of submission?
Is it a good cover?
Before the author even speaks in her new book, she lets a picture speak for itself.
It shows the protagonist of Monika Maron's story »Bonnie Propeller«.
And this Bonnie in the picture can't be beat for heartbreaking, innocent friendliness.
Yes, but - weren't everyone on the barricades just now?
Wasn't it just about the flood of refugees, gender insanity, Merkel's dictatorship, weak men, burned books, bans on speaking?
Hadn't Monika Maron only published essays in the "Exil" series of Edition Buchhaus Loschwitz a few months ago and thus presumptuously placed herself in the tradition of expatriates under the Nazi dictatorship - and thereby provoked her expulsion from her old publisher S. Fischer?
Who, in turn, turned all the cancel culture indignants of our day against him in a tremendous furore?
DER SPIEGEL 49/2020
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Andy Cantillon / eyevine / INTERTOPICS
Cry for me
Brilliant.
Excessive.
Destructive.
Diego Maradona
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Yes.
And now: a puppy.
Bonnie.
Short-legged heroine of a mini-novella, barely 50 pages long.
Maybe it is a sign that Monika Maron sends to us all.
Maybe the world out there is really dark and threatening enough already, and we should all calm down a little and do a little more with nothing.
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