Walter Kappacher – writes against equals

Since its inception in 1973, the narrative volume "Only flying is beautiful", until its latest publications, the novel "Land of the Big Stones" (2012) and the autobiographical prose "I Remember" (2018), the Salzburg writer Walter Kappacher come a long way. Slowly, the silent author, who had written on the defensive and was closer to retirement than the grand entrance, had taken off a personality who was increasingly appropriating the world to transform it into language in his own way. In the novel "Morning" (1975), we meet a young man who avoids, if possible, any contact with his environment. He armed in a rigid ego, pushes the reality to the maximum. In him we have the desperate case of a lonely, the treatment of the other is boring and hollow.

And yet, very quickly, another way to be noticed appeared when he described in the novel "The Workshop" a figure overflowing with pbadion for the engines. How does this fit into badfeeding to which the Rührmichnan Nimbus is not attached? True Kappacher heroes do not fit perfectly into a world in which you have to integrate into a system. Born of resistance, they escape into a form of pbadive renunciation that helps them avoid submission.

Those who have a supporting role in a Kappacher book are motivated by the aspiration to another life. It is the continuity of work, only the way this desire is felt is attributable to individual inclinations.

When a man departs from his normalized life in the tumult of motor racing, he does not differ so much from a high school teacher who misses his sad existence by retreating to a remote Italian region where it is the fate of the transmission of the world.

In "Selina or Das andere Leben" ("The Other Life") of 2005, Stefan embarks on the experience of saying goodbye to the temptations of civilization in order to deal with the great issues of l & # 39; existence. This puts new weights, which seems to be particularly valuable.

Kappacher, winner of the Büchner Prize, puts his characters in a crisis situation that forces them to break with misery. Hugo von Hofmannsthal slows down the writing when Kappacher presents it in the novel "The Fly Palace" (2009) of Bad Fusch, where he wishes to continue his work. There comes nothing, it gives the impression of an intellectual fool late on a great past because the future remains closed to him. Certainly, this novel also represents the futility of all hope and aspiration under the sign of melancholy, which sets the tone in Kappacher's work, but reveals a subtle joke.

Today, Walter Kappacher is 80 years old and still has projects. We want to know this even more precisely.

Source: SN