{"id":28563,"date":"2018-02-08T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankegroener.de\/blog\/?p=28563"},"modified":"2018-02-08T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T07:55:39","slug":"was-schon-war-mittwoch-7-februar-2018-mezze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/?p=28563","title":{"rendered":"Was sch\u00f6n war, Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2018 \u2013 Mezze"},"content":{"rendered":"

In meiner Mittagspause bl\u00e4tterte ich in meinem libanesischen Kochbuch<\/a>\"\" (wie Ottolenghi, nur mit der H\u00e4lfte der Zutaten), weil ich mal wieder Lust auf Mezze hatte. Drei Rezepte brauchten ein paar Dinge, die ich nicht im Haus hatte, ein viertes (von Ottolenghi, schon gut) immerhin eine Zutat, also ging ich einkaufen, arbeitete dann noch ein paar St\u00fcndchen und kochte dann ein bisschen vor mich hin, bevor F. vorbeikam und wir zusammen ein kleines Festessen genossen.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Fladenbrot plus die obligatorische Breze, alles geht mit Brezn, wie ich inzwischen wei\u00df. Daneben Hummus, der mir leider nicht ganz so cremig gelang wie ich es gerne gehabt h\u00e4tte, darunter Ottolenghis Kartoffelsalat<\/a> mit Pesto, darunter Baba Ghanoush (eine Aubergine war deutlich zu wenig, ich kaufe heute gleich nochmal welche, das war so lecker!), daneben Halloumi aus dem Ofen in einer Marinade aus Oliven\u00f6l, Zitronensaft, Knoblauch und Minze.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Charles Sprawson wrote a celebrated book. Then he vanished<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Der Economist<\/em> \u00fcber einen englischen Autoren, der ein Buch \u00fcber das Schwimmen schrieb, das sehr interessant klingt, und heute in einem Pflegeheim nach der T\u00fcr zum Pool sucht.<\/p>\n

\u201eHis first and (so far) only book, \u201cHaunts of the Black Masseur\u201d, will be reissued later this year. When it was first published, in 1992, it enjoyed the kind of critical and commercial success that most debut authors only dream about. It has inspired and influenced homages and imitations. Mr Sprawson was feted\u2014then forgotten. The story of his career since that triumph exemplifies the caprices of literary celebrity and the indignities of old age. It points to a deeper issue, too: what, in the end, defines a person\u2019s life?<\/p>\n

Mr Sprawson was born in Pakistan, the son of a headmaster, went to school in Kent and briefly taught classics in the Middle East. He married, settled in Gloucestershire and raised a family. He became an itinerant art dealer, specialising in Victoriana. On visits to the Channel Island of Jersey, his car loaded with oil paintings, he stayed at the Prince of Wales hotel in Greve de Lecq: it was on the beach and he could swim before breakfast. Along with books, swimming was at the heart of his life.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Auf Deutsch hei\u00dft sein Buch \u00fcbrigens Ich nehme dich auf meinen R\u00fccken, verm\u00e4hle dich dem Ozean<\/a><\/em> (2002).<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Und weil’s thematisch so sch\u00f6n passt:<\/p>\n

The Lost Giant of American Literature. A major black novelist made a remarkable d\u00e9but. How did he disappear?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Der New Yorker<\/em> \u00fcber William Kelley<\/a>, einen Autoren, der w\u00e4hrend der Civil-Rights-Bewegung bekannt wurde und im Laufe der Zeit immer experimenteller schrieb \u2013\u00a0die Autorin des Artikels, Kathryn Schulz, vergleicht sein Buch dunfords travels everywheres<\/em> (1970) mit Finnegans Wake<\/a><\/em> \u2013, und wie er aus dem literarischen Ged\u00e4chtnis Amerikas verschwand.<\/p>\n

\u201eWilliam Kelley was thirty-two when \u201cdunfords travels everywheres\u201d appeared. He wrote constantly for the next forty-seven years, never published another book, and died a year ago, at the age of seventy-nine. […]<\/p>\n

Still, Kelley was never a pat enough political writer to simply wash in and out with the ideological tides, and there were many other considerations, too. Chief among these was the strange chiasmus at the heart of his work: a black man writing about how white people think about black people. That perspective was smart and important\u2014in effect, it transformed W. E. B. Du Bois\u2019s double consciousness into a narrative device\u2014but it radically diminished Kelley\u2019s audience. Many white readers didn\u2019t want a black writer telling them what they thought, especially when so much of it was withering, while many black readers, long starved for literary representation, didn\u2019t want to read about more white characters. To make matters worse, very few people, white or black, wanted to subscribe to a vision of America that grew progressively more damning in the course of Kelley\u2019s career. And, regardless of the topic of a book or the race of its author, almost no one wanted to contend with experimental prose.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In meiner Mittagspause bl\u00e4tterte ich in meinem libanesischen Kochbuch (wie Ottolenghi, nur mit der H\u00e4lfte der Zutaten), weil ich mal wieder Lust auf Mezze hatte. Drei Rezepte brauchten ein paar Dinge, die ich nicht im Haus hatte, ein viertes (von Ottolenghi, schon gut) immerhin eine Zutat, also ging ich einkaufen, arbeitete dann noch ein paar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28568,"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions\/28568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ankegroener.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}