Doris Lasch: Hellfeld

Hardcover, thread stitching, 11 × 18 cm, 102 pages
Languages: English/German, edition: 400, design: Astrid Seme, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-903353-05-3

€18

“The negatives were gone”, it says on the first page of Doris Lasch's story Hellfeld. This unheard-of occurrence is, in the spirit of Goethe, the trigger for the inner movement of the first-person narrator, a photographer who wanders through her studio and her memories with the viewfinder of language.
[read more] Language thereby takes on the role of the camera, for both are united by the fact that they inevitably interpose themselves between the perceiver and the perceived. At the same time, through the gaze of language on photography, the first-person narrator achieves a distance through which she can rediscover her seemingly familiar studio and her activity.
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