“Image” by Sveamaus (Svea Mausolf) is a meme in a novel form
If influencer: insideWrite ... then I actually don't want to have anything to do with it. However, this author cannot be described as an influencer:Svea mausolf(@sveamausOn Instagram) it has become known to post satirical memes that hurt a bit that are a bit true and above all take the bourgeoisie and “typical German” on the shovel. “Geinfluent” is little here - especially amused. Then it went out of the Internet: The satirist and artist only convinced with art installations, then a successful comedy tour and now with her debut novel: “Image” (by the way pronounced French, i.e.Imasch).
That's what “Image” by Svea Mausolf is about
There are few books where I find it so difficult to describe the content, such as “Image” by Svea Mausolf.
It is mainly about Peggy Brinkmann, 37, without a job, but a permanent student and a less beloved second child of rich parents. But it is precisely these rich parents that has finally been closed to her, and she has to get a roommate for her designer apartment and for hersa classified ad account. Her life breaks into the fractures bit by bit: When her friend ends with her, she drives her into the rotten corner pub - the “image”. Above all, people with alcoholic people frolic here, both in front of and behind the counter. For example: Veronique, who fell in love with Peggy a while ago and likes to do everything for her to come by more often in her pub.
But it's not just about Peggy. In every paragraph of the novel, it can happen that you suddenly find yourself in the head of someone else. Above all, there is her roommate Martin, the son of successful actors: inside who likes to play poor to get to know the “real life”. In his free time, he likes to explain any women who is Francis Ford Coppola and why they should definitely watch “the godfather” and paints his fingernails so that this means that he is thinking that he would be, although he does not secretly believe in equality.
Opponents: Inside Peggy, above all, her own sister and Christian fluencer Jenny are, before whose engagement she actually wants to avoid. Jenny is engaged to Lorenz, and together they take over the erotic discounter business of Jenny's parents and also have their own great ideas on how the business can be expanded. The two want to do an online erotic shop for Christian: on the inside-and have to present the idea of Jenny's parents. Peggy actually wants nothing to do with it - but her mother Elke makes her feelings of guilt until she does. The highlight of the story is of course the engagement ceremony.
“Image” is a dirty, shameless mirror
Each figure in “image” is an exaggerated cliché: neglected alcoholics: inside, fake feminists, family pub visitors: inside, spoiled snösel and arrogant Christian: inside. The story is a dirty, black satire on our late capitalist world and its residents: inside.
At the same time, there is of course a bit of truth everywhere. My colleague, who studied art, said she knows about 20 Martins, and in the media industry you can also meet a Martin every now and then. I know Veronique personally and their customers: inside in the corner pub too. The novel reads as if you had pressed this bad light from the H&M blade cubes into a flashlight and you can now glow in all the back corners of society.
Held: Somehow there is no inside. But it feels like scrolling a whole book through the Instagram memes of Sveamaus without feeling bad afterwards-or maybe not quite as bad.
That is why our author recommends “Image” by Svea Mausolf
In some places I felt sick, sometimes I was ashamed, I laughed and thought:true. The language is lively, speaking, obscene and sometimes disgusting. This is not a slight reading, and for delicately besaite readers: inside, who cannot do anything with inflationary use of strength, it is nothing. I don't really like disgusting humor - and Olivia (an unwashed drug addict that pee from Martin's window) pushed me to my limits.
But: I couldn't put the book away. You jump from side to the side, scene to scene and from feeling to feel, and suddenly you are in the middle of the story. Perfect for mine, which it is difficult to concentrate on one thing and all the important onesTo finish reading that I started.
There isbrutalAnalyzes and insights for class struggle, millennials,, Pseudo-feminists,as well as small and skewers. The novel is right on the zeitgeist, it is queer, funny, satirical and does not take back. A meme in the form of novels.
Image: Roman of Svea Mausolf
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