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Title: Slow Homecoming Comprising Three Novels
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 1986
Language: German
ISBN 10: 0413424006
ISBN 13: 9780413424006
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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Seit Jahren war Valentin Sorger entfernt von allem, was sich unter dem Begriff ›Heimat‹ oder ›Familie‹ verstehen l��t. In seiner Daseinslust, im Bewu�tsein seiner St�rke hatte er Bindungen und Beziehungen aufgegeben; Gef�hle f�r Zur�ckgelassenes hatte er �berlebt; er empfand keine Sehnsucht mehr; er war nicht einmal mehr imstande gewesen, den Gedanken an sein Kind zu Ende zu denken. Nun, in der Erkenntnis solchen Entferntseins, solcher Verlassenheit, bereitet sich die Heimkehr vor. Der Weg ist lang. Er f�hrt von Alaska ― Sorger arbeitet hier am Rande einer Indianer- siedlung mit seinem Kollegen Lauffer als Geologe ― zun�chst an die Westk�ste, dann an die Ostk�ste der USA, wo er einen Freund aus seinem Herkunftsland besuchen will; und er f�hrt schlie�lich in die Stadt der St�dte, in der Sorger ein Gesetz f�r sein Handeln (und das anderer) formulieren kann, das seine Heimkehr nach Europa notwendig und m�glich zugleich macht: �Das ist ein gesetzgebender Augenblick: mich lossprechend von meiner Schuld, der selbstverantworteten und auch der nachgef�hlten, verpflichtet er mich, den einzelnen immer nur zuf�llig Teilnahmsf�higen, zu einer so stetig wie m�glich ge�bten Einmischung. Es ist zugleich mein geschichtlicher Augenblick: ich lerne (ja, ich kann noch lernen), da� die Geschichte nicht blo� eine Aufeinanderfolge von �beln ist, die einer wie ich nur ohnm�chtig schm�hen kann ― sondern auch, seit jeher, eine von jedermann (auch von mir) fortsetzbare, friedensstiftende Form.�

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