Ilma Rakusa: Going to the language
Ilma Rakusa
Going to language.
With an afterword by Walter Schmitz and a bibliography.
The 4th Dresden Chamisso Poetry Lectureship took place in 2005. In her Dresden lectures, the author and translator develops the poetology of a 'literature in motion': "I do not count myself among the sedentary, neither in life nor in writing. Rather, everything is movement without interruption, 'with constantly sliding boundaries' (Claudio Magris)."
Ilma Rakusa, born in 1946 to a Hungarian mother and a Slovenian father in Rimavská Sobota (Slovakia), spent her childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste. She studied Slavic and Romance languages and literature in Zurich, Paris and Leningrad and lives in Zurich.
Works (selection):
Wie Winter. Gedichte (1977)
Die Insel. Erzählung (1982)
Miramar. Erzählungen (1986
Steppe. Erzählungen (1990)
Leben. Fünfzehn Akronyme (1990)
Jim. Sieben Dramolette (1993)
Ein Strich durch alles. Neunzig Neunzeiler (1997)
Love after love. Acht Abgesänge (2001)
Langsamer! Gegen Atemlosigkeit, Akzeleration und andere Zumutungen (Essay, 2005)
Durch Schnee. Erzählungen und Prosaminiaturen (2006).