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Barbara Honigmann
Bilder von A.
Pictures of A.
Novel. 144 pages. Hardcover
Publication date: July 25, 2011
An unconventional love affair between two artists. A liberating awakening.
Barbara Honigman’s novel tells the story of a young woman who comes to realise
she must transcend her love affair in order to find her own way in life.
F I CTI O N
In the streets of Berlin, a man is riding a bicycle. A woman is perched on the handlebars.
An officer of the Volkspolizei spots them: »Get off that bike – right now!«
It is the beginning of a love affair that will not end happily. A is a theatre director. The young
woman is torn between working in the theatre, becoming a painter or opting for the life of
a writer. A on his bike – this will be her first portrait of him.
Barbara Honigmann’s work has won numerous awards for the way »it portrays, in crystal clear
language imbued with dazzling acuity and coruscating irony, the displaced lives of Jews in Europe and
divided Germany« (Max-Frisch-Prize, 2011). Pictures of A presents another facet of this portrayal:
bringing to life the Bohemian counter-culture in vivid close-up while describing with
unflinching candour an artist’s struggle to find her unique path amidst the traumas she faces
as she gradually becomes aware of her Jewish identity. Eventually the tensions become too
great to bear, and the couple’s lives take separate directions.
Barbara Honigmann
born in 1949 in East Berlin, worked as a dramatic adviser and director. In 1984 she emigrated
to Strasbourg with her family. Honigmann’s works have won her numerous awards, most
recently the City of Zurich’s Max-Frisch-Prize. Publications with Hanser include Das
Gesicht wiederfinden (2007) and Das überirdische Licht. Rückkehr nach New York (2008).
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