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Phone call with Baronin
Phone call with Baronin II

Telephoning the Baroness
Telephoning the Baroness II

deutsch / english


Stage text for one person

Photos / Images: Carlos Kellá / Ane king tree
English translation:
Janet Fraser
2nd edition 2018 / 2nd edition 2018
Paperback, 110 pages, 11.5 x 18 cm,
15 photos / photos
Price: 9.80 EUR | Order / order

German - German

Telephone conversation with the baronessdescribes the conversations that the author had with Baroness Grudrun von Brockhusen, the wife of Hans Hartmut Hindenburg von Brockhusen.
With unusual rhetoric, the reader gets an insight into a world that is rather unknown to most people, even alien. The text, written as a stage play, deals with art and culture, artists and publishers, the author and the grandmotherly lady. Ironic, cynical, vicious, but also very honest.

Opinions

Written in the manner of Thomas Bernhard, with endlessly long sentences and formulations, repeated use of words and negations, the author reveals his world of thoughts, views and also the contempt for his professional environment. In a very amusing way. Art, artists, the art scene, art experts and those who believe they are, but are actually just worms (according to the author), are mercilessly dissected. He describes impressively, very emotionally, how he feels about it and sometimes it is hardly bearable for him.
It is amusing that he is sitting at his desk, talking on the phone, smoking a cigarette, cleaning his silver and doing that Horrortells the baroness that she has to endure this in silence and that it doesn't really matter whether she listens or not. The text is interrupted by pictures with old silver cutlery, jewelry and art objects. As the text progresses, the reader feels that the author lives in his world, in his view of the things that he reflects on and comments on on the phone, but also finds it pathetic and unbearable. The author's insights are only interrupted by the puff on the cigarette and a sip of tea, which is celebrated in great detail even during the phone call, obliges the nobility, who knows that better than the Baroness?
The special thing about the book is the English part, the translation of the German text. I was very skeptical as to whether this language style could be saved into English. He can, very well: the English language will soon be able to grasp the style, its grammatical cynicism and this with a pinch of aristocratic arrogance, of course the tea is not missing here either.
In short: the book is something for everyone. Those who love the German language, those who love the English language, those who want to laugh heartily at a cynical text and those who want to look at beautiful silver and jewelry in a book will also get their money's worth.
Have fun with this gem, it provided me with incredible entertainment, also with a cup of tea. David-A. Eschrich, Hamburg
english / englisch

The recent book written by Francois Maher Presley has been published. Telephoning the Baroness describes the conversations the author had with baroness Gudrun von Brockhusen, the wife of Hans Hartmut Hindenburg von Brockhusen.
 
Rhetorically unusual, the reader gets an insight in a world, which is rather unknown or strange to most people. The text – written as a stage play – is about arts and culture, artists and publishers, the author and the grandmother-like lady. Ironic, cynical, malicious but very honest as well.

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I read the book: it took me over and can't stop until I finished it. It is a small book for the number of pages, but your soul is all concentrated in it, and it is also a philisophy book and a GREAT book. I do not share all the content, but a lot of it is my own thought. And you expressed it wonderfully. Thank you very much for writing this monologue.
 
I waited a long time to write this mail because I wanted to be sure that it was not only a feeling of my heart. Now I may dare to say it deals with philosophy and great thoughts for the most part of it. Prof. Dr. Giovanna Ferraioli, Milano

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