Original title: Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt. English title: The Passport.
Herta Müller was awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in literature and writes in a staccato prose-almost-poem-style. I wish I liked it, but …It never really worked for me. The text reads to me either like a teenager’s attempt at writing great literature, or a grammar exercise. The final 50 pages became more interesting, but most of this text was static and detatched. Luckily (for a tasteless literary imbecile like me) it was short. And no, the German/Danish title really doesn’t make any sense.
