(No)vel Preview

Miku Sophie Kühmel gave an insight into the work on her third novel on 26 November as part of the “Long Nights of Literature” at the Künstlerhaus. She deals with a character from Gotha who (like herself) has left her hometown.

The novel begins with the words:

“the present novel is a novel.
this novel is not a biography.
this novel is not a chronicle.
but it is a story.

the scenes in this book are scenes.
the scenes in this book are not events.
the scenes in this book happened,
whether they happened or not.”

the characters in this text are characters.
the characters in this text are there and not there.
the characters in this book act, dream, breathe.
and are fictional.”