Fjodor und Vidjaia, eine Geschichte von Liebe und Tod

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This debut novel ventures in an original way out of the usual literary categorization: novelistic features combine with the presentation of a thinking that draws radical consequences from core ideas of European Enlightenment, but immediately reintegrates these into the framework of the novelistic events in such a way that the entire 'plot' becomes a real-symbolic consequence-presentation of an intellectual whole. This whole presents, as the title says, half fairy-tale-like, half also utopian characteristics; nevertheless, the reader will soon be captured by a special atmosphere that will make even what appears strange and peculiar 'from the outside' seem very quickly familiar to him. In terms of content, it deals with two of the literarily as well as philosophically fundamental themes that have occupied thinkers and writers for millennia: They are love and death. The story told here somewhat differently from the perspective of each participant is superficially not actually tragic; rather, love and death of the main characters indicate the sign of a tragic bliss, which - when properly explicated - opens the reader's view to a far-reaching new reflection on the fundamental values of our existence. Thus the author traces, particularly in the parts that occasionally touch on the essayistic, to the ultimate consequence the outlines of a new 'this-worldly'-personalistic humanism, whose supporting and central value proves to be a comprehensive, mutually interpenetrating entirely bodily, entirely 'soulful' entirely spiritual love.