Neuerscheinungen

"Neuerscheinungen hrsg. von Daniela Comani" (New Publications edited by Daniela Comani) presents books we are all acquainted with, well-known classics that adorn our book-shelves. Dostojewski, Cervantes, Flaubert, Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry oder Robert Musil. Books we once read or should have read, now endowed with a certain sense of nostalgia, of past certaintiens. Or does she? Have we really ever encountered Die Schwestern Karamasow, Doña Quixote, Monsieur Bovary, The Old Woman and the Sea, La Petite Princesse, Die Frau ohne Eigenschaften? The protagonists of world literature, most of them male, undergo a miraculous gender transformation, seriously challenging our established notions of literary type and roles. Gender unease is made visible in a subtle and sensitive way. Daniela Comani's art entices us to take a completely fresh look aat some of the great classics of Western literature.