dieses ganze theater, das antje haack hier auf dem einband veranstaltet passt auch gerade mit den vereinzelten masken ausgezeichnet zum kurzen roman von xita rubert. eine gute wahl... passend verwirrend für verworrenes im innern...

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Eliot Weinberger, Die Sterne, 2021, Berenberg Verlag, Berlin, S.23.

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from the open letter:

Award-winning Palestinian author Adania Shibli, who was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for her book Minor Detail (New Directions/Fitzcarraldo, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette), was to receive Germany’s 2023 LiBeraturpreis for the same book, published in German as Eine Nebensache (Berenberg Verlag, translated by Günther Orth) at the 2023 Frankfurt Book Fair, which begins next week. On October 13, the organizers of the prize, Litprom, which is funded in part by the German government and the Frankfurt Book Fair, released a statement saying Shibli would no longer receive the prize during the book fair. In addition, a public discussion with Adania Shibli and her translator Günther Orth at the book fair has also been canceled. The statement originally said that this decision had been made in accordance with the author, which was then relayed, without verification, by an article in The New York Times (now corrected). This is untrue; Adania Shibli has said the decision was not made with her, she was presented with the decision. If the ceremony were held, she said, she would have taken the opportunity to reflect on the role of literature in these cruel and painful times. (Litprom and The Times have since made corrections.) Shibli’s US publisher, Barbara Epler of New Directions, wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times, which we excerpt here: With the unbelievable heartbreak that is now being suffered on all sides, it serves no one to put forward falsehoods, especially about the author of a novel about the Nakba that is so historically true. To cancel the ceremony and so try to silence the voice of Adania Shibli — “due to the war in Israel” — is cowardly. But to say Shibli agreed (amid all the suffering in Gaza) is worse. At a time when the fair has issued a statement saying it wants to make Israeli voices “especially visible at the fair,” they are closing out the space for a Palestinian voice.

you can view the the full list of signatories at arablit.

the frankfurt book festival itself, which is one of the largest publishing conventions in the world, is going on as scheduled, but has not reinstated shibli's prize-giving event. in response, numerous authors and publishing professionals have withdrawn from participation in the fair.

you can read adana shibli's short essay "stories too awful to believe: adania shibli on bombings in ramallah", at lithub, translated from arabic by wiam el-tamami.

you can also read a piece of shibli's short fiction, "a tin ball", at arablit, which has an anonymous translator.

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Dead Moon (Moon no 6), ink drawing, inspiration: "Der Mond" by Joachim Kalka, Berenberg Verlag, Berlin, 2016

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Brazilian horse stranded on a roof by floods is rescued after stirring the nation (ABC News) A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users garnered national attention after a television news helicopter filmed him stranded on a rooftop in southern Brazil, where massive floods have killed more than 100 people. About 24 hours after he was first spotted and with people clamoring for his rescue, a team in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state on Thursday successfully removed Caramelo, providing a dose of hope to a beleaguered region. The brown horse had been balancing on two narrow strips of slippery asbestos for days in Canoas, a city in the Porto Alegre metropolitan area that is one of the hardest-hit areas in the state, much of which has been isolated by floodwaters.

Argentina labor unions’ 24-hour strike against President Milei paralyzes daily life (AP) Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Main avenues and streets, as well as major transportation terminals were left eerily empty. Most teachers couldn’t make it to school and parents kept their children at home. Trash collectors walked off the job—as did health workers, except for those in emergency rooms. The 24-hour strike against Milei’s painful austerity measures and contentious deregulation push threatened to bring the nation of 46 million to a standstill as banks, businesses and state agencies also closed in protest. Thursday’s action marked the second nationwide union strike since Milei came to power last December, slashing spending, laying off government workers, and freezing all public works projects in a bid to rescue Argentina from its worst financial crisis in two decades.

British economy rebounds in first quarter of the year (AP) The British economy bounced back strongly in the first three months of the year, bringing to an end to what economists termed a “technical recession”, official figures showed Friday. The Office for National Statistics said the economy grew by 0.6% in the first quarter from the previous three-month period. It comes after two quarters of modest declines, which in the U.K. is defined as a recession. Despite the quarterly increase, the British economy has barely grown over the past year. It has been hobbled by interest rates at 16-year highs of 5.25%.

What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot (NYT) Packed bars with carousing revelers spilling onto clogged streets. Takeaway booze swigged by drunken tourists and students. Earsplitting volumes in once quiet residential neighborhoods long after midnight. When Milan’s authorities embarked years ago on plans to promote the city as a buzzy destination by building on its reputation as Italy’s hip fashion and design capital, the resulting noise and rowdy overcrowding were perhaps not quite what they had in mind. Now, after years of complaints and a series of lawsuits, the city has passed an ordinance to strictly limit the sale of takeaway food and beverages after midnight—and not much later on weekends—in “movida” areas, a Spanish term that Italians have adopted to describe outdoor nightlife. It will go into effect next week and be in force until Nov. 11. Outdoor seating for restaurants and bars will also end at 12:30 a.m. on weekdays, and an hour later on weekends, so that people who want to party longer will have to do so indoors.

Ukraine orders electricity rationing after Russian airstrikes (Washington Post) On Wednesday, Ukrainian authorities said the country would begin electricity-rationing measures in response to a series of Russian airstrikes that hit Ukrainian power infrastructure. State energy provider Ukrenergo said that brownouts “are possible throughout Ukraine” overnight due to a “shortage of electricity in the power system.” “Restrictions will be evenly distributed across all regions,” said the power provider. According to DTEK, Ukraine’s biggest private energy company, the shelling marked “the fifth massive shelling of the company’s energy facilities in the last one and a half months.”

Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar’s civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military (AP) Six months into an offensive against Myanmar ‘s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war. There is pressure on all fronts from powerful militias drawn from Myanmar’s ethnic minority groups and newer resistance forces. Troops are retaliating with air, naval and artillery strikes on hospitals and other facilities where the opposition could be sheltered or aided. “When the mass of people rise up against them, I think it terrifies them,” said Dave Eubank, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier who founded the Free Burma Rangers, a humanitarian aid organization that has provided assistance to both combatants and civilians in Myanmar since the 1990s. “They know that hospitals, churches, schools and monasteries are important places for human care, and gathering, and symbols—and they hammer them,” said Eubank. “That’s new.” Thet Swe, a spokesman for the military government, denied that troops were targeting buildings and areas where civilians were sheltering, blaming their destruction instead on the opposition forces, without citing evidence.

U.N. General Assembly Adopts Resolution Supporting Palestinian Statehood (NYT/WSJ) The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution declaring that Palestinians qualify for full-member status at the United Nations, a highly symbolic move that reflects growing global solidarity with Palestinians and is a rebuke to Israel and the United States. The resolution was approved by a vote of 143 to 9 with 25 nations abstaining. The Assembly broke into a big applause after the vote. The United States voted no, saying that recognition of Palestinian statehood should be achieved through negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Anger and frustration at the United States has been brewing for months among many senior U.N. officials and diplomats, including allies such as France, because Washington has repeatedly blocked cease-fire resolutions at the Security Council and has staunchly supported Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, even as humanitarian suffering has mounted.       Israel stated that the resolution’s passage “will not change anything on the ground” in Gaza. On Friday, Israeli forces captured the main road dividing eastern and western Rafah, effectively encircling the eastern part of the city. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees estimates that nearly 110,000 people have fled Rafah since Monday, many of them escaping to Khan Younis, only to face another city that has been devastated by war and is still coming under Israeli bombardment. On Thursday and overnight Friday, the Israeli military carried out deadly airstrikes in Khan Younis as well as in the northern areas of Gaza City and the Jabalya camp.

Netanyahu on US threat to withhold arms: Israel will fight with its ‘fingernails’ if needed (AP) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a U.S. threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the wishes of its closest ally. President Joe Biden has urged Israel not to go ahead with such an operation over fears it would exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe in the Palestinian enclave. On Wednesday, he said the United States would not provide offensive weapons for a Rafah offensive, raising pressure on Netanyahu. But in a statement released Thursday, Netanyahu said “if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails. But we have much more than fingernails.” Israel’s top military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, also appeared to downplay the practical impact of any arms holdup. “The army has munitions for the missions it plans, and for the missions in Rafah, too—we have what we need,” he said in response to a question at a news conference.

Another enemy of Israel: Debt (Bloomberg) Though in a stare-down with its biggest ally and arms supplier over the looming invasion of Rafah, Israel has another problem when it comes to the ongoing war with Hamas: debt. Israel has racked up a $16 billion bill after seven months of war, leaving its budget deficit on a path to calamity absent government action. As the war’s financial toll grows, Israel is on track to run one of its widest budget deficits this century. Expenditure surged almost 36% in the first four months of 2024 from the same period a year earlier, of which roughly two-thirds went toward defense outlays.

Brain complexity (nature.com, lichtmanlabs.fas.harvard.edu) Researchers have mapped a tiny piece of the human brain in astonishing detail. The resulting cell atlas, which was described today in Science and is available online, reveals new patterns of connections between brain cells called neurons. The 3D map covers a volume of about one cubic millimeter, one-millionth of a whole brain, and contains roughly 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses—the connections between neurons. It incorporates a colossal 1.4 petabytes of data. “It’s a little bit humbling,” says Viren Jain, a neuroscientist at Google in Mountain View, California, and a co-author of the paper. “How are we ever going to really come to terms with all this complexity?” Jain’s team built artificial-intelligence models that were able to stitch the microscope images together to reconstruct the whole sample in 3D. “I remember this moment, going into the map and looking at one individual synapse from this woman’s brain, and then zooming out into these other millions of pixels,” says Jain. “It felt sort of spiritual.”

die unordentlichen

roman von xita rubert

erschienen 2024

im berenberg verlag

isbn: 978-3-949203-86-2

(von tobias bruns)

virginia reist mit ihrem vater in den norden spaniens, um an einer preisverleihung teilzunehmen - preisträger wird der alte studienfreund ihres vaters, andrew kopp. der alte wissenschaftler ist ein komischer vogel, der einen plan ausheckt, die preisverleihung, bei der auch das spanische königspaar anwesend sein wird, etwas durcheinander zu bringen. mit eingeplant bei diesem streich sind natürlich auch virginia und ihr vater. ebenso dabei ist anrews frau sonya und bertrand, wohl der sohn der beiden, mit dem aber irgendetwas nicht zu stimmen scheint. es wird virginia nicht ganz klar wer und was bertrand ist. sohn oder begleiter, künstler oder einfach ein verrückter... sie wird nicht aus ihm schlau. schon bei einer der ersten begegnungen bricht der junge mann mit einem händedruck fast ihre finger. trotz allen vorbehalten, die sie gegen bertrand direkt bei der ersten begegnung entwickelt hat, übt er eine ungewöhnliche anziehung, teils sogar sexuelle, auf sie aus. erklären kann sie sich das nicht und ändern kann sie es genauso wenig. ist es, weil er einfach so anders ist, konventionen bricht oder diese garnicht erst kennt? und was hat es mit seiner kunst auf sich, den skulpturen, von denen er und seine eltern immer wieder sprechen?

eine ungewöhnliche geschichte die xita rubert hier erzählt, in der sie einen bogen spannt von der demenzerkrankung und dadurch entfernung aus dem "normalen" leben von virginias vater kurz nach dem besuch in nordspanien (die ich-erzählerin erzählt die geschichte aus erinnerungen aus der zukunft der geschichte) , zum aus dem "normalen" leben schon ewig entfernten bertrand, der zwar künstler sein könnte, aber auch das ist nicht klar - allerdings wird hier das bild des exzentrischen künstlers gut bedient, sollte er denn tatsächlich künstler sein und all sein nicht der norm entsprechendes verhalten vorspielen. es ist ein geheimnis, das dieses buch nicht verrät. abgesehen von dieser ungewöhnlichen geschichte zwischen bertrand und virginia ist es ein wenig auch eine satire auf die feine gesellschaft, in der schein soviel mehr zählt als sein, was andrew und sonya kopp auf wunderbare weise widerspiegeln - sie machen sich die welt, wie sie ihnen gefällt... viel spaß beim lesen.

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