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Axolotl Roadkill

Helene Hegemann

2.30 · Rating details · 871 ratings · 92 reviews

'Schreckliche Leben sind der größte Glücksfall', schreibt die 16jährige Mifti in ihr Tagebuch. Seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter lebt sie in Berlin, und als 'pseudo-belastungsgestörtes' Problemkind durchläuft sie nach 'Jahren der Duldungsstarre' gerade eine extrem negative Entwicklung.
Obwohl intelligent und gut situiert, nimmt sie Drogen, verweigert die Schule und hat sogar Argume ...more

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Jun 29, 2011 Tina rated it did not like it

Total rubbish.
This reads like a wanna-be "experimental" novel,but in reality it's just "oh I'm so cool,I do drugs and waste my life",with a good measure of "I was abused...oh no,just kidding cause all the cool kids were".
Pseudo intellectual waste of my time - there's nothing more to say about this.

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May 25, 2013 Lukáš Palán rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: german

Abych se tak držel jazyka knihy: "Když je hrdinka píča, bábovku z ní neuplácáš. Vole dog yo bro"

Helene Hegemann je možná vznešená pozérka, v přítmí svých dvacetin degustující svojí vlastní slávu a hipsterství, ve svém opus magnum ovšem selhává na všech frontách. Odysea do duše sotva náctileté SS-Dolce a Gabbana heroinové princezny je prázdná jako jakýkoliv jiný zápisky lidí, kteří si myslí, že mají právo revoltovat proti "něčemu, ty píčo všemu."

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Mar 21, 2010 Anna-Lisa rated it did not like it

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I can't give more than one star and I would like to give -5 stars...

This book is a book the world doesn't need. There was this whole hype about it so I borrowed it from a friend and read it in about 2 hours because there isn't much to read.
Maybe I'm just to old for a book about the life of a 16 year old who fucks around, doesn't go to school and take drugs.

This book is totally overrated, the author made a scandal with plagiarism and even won book prizes. *shakes head*

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Oct 03, 2012 Lily rated it did not like it

Rein inhaltlich betrachtet ist Hegemanns Romandebüt "Axolotl Roadkill" wahrlich nichts allzu Neues. Die junge Autorin beschreibt in Form von wirren Tagebucheinträgen der 16jährigen Protagonistin Mifti deren Leben in Berlin. Wilde Drogenexzesse, Sex, Schuleschwänzen, ein verwahrlostes Leben ohne Mutter, Orientierungslosigkeit, der Sinn oder Unsinn des Lebens - Hegemann wartet mit allen möglichen Themen auf, die ein jugendliches Leben beschäftigen können. Nichts, was es nicht schon vorher in irgen Rein inhaltlich betrachtet ist Hegemanns Romandebüt "Axolotl Roadkill" wahrlich nichts allzu Neues. Die junge Autorin beschreibt in Form von wirren Tagebucheinträgen der 16jährigen Protagonistin Mifti deren Leben in Berlin. Wilde Drogenexzesse, Sex, Schuleschwänzen, ein verwahrlostes Leben ohne Mutter, Orientierungslosigkeit, der Sinn oder Unsinn des Lebens - Hegemann wartet mit allen möglichen Themen auf, die ein jugendliches Leben beschäftigen können. Nichts, was es nicht schon vorher in irgendeiner Form gegeben hätte.
Hegemanns Schreibstil in diesem "Werk" ist hingegen gewöhnungsbedürftig. Sie knallt einem sowohl hochkomplizierte und ausformulierte Sätze als auch scheinbar völlig planlos dahingeschriebene, mit Fäkalausdrücken gespickte Passagen um die Ohren. Bei manchen Dialogen ist nur schwer oder gar nicht zu erkennen, wer hier überhaupt mit wem spricht - es scheint aber auch nicht weiter wichtig zu sein.
Die ersten Seiten des Buches erscheinen noch einigermaßen interessant und lesbar, doch je weiter man liest, desto mehr bekommt man den Eindruck, die Hegemann wolle schlicht und einfach nur provozieren und sich möglichst stark vom Rest der Literatur abheben. Die Sprache wirkt zum Teil extrem gekünstelt und kompliziert, dann wieder übertrieben jugendlich und einfach.
Ein Handlungsverlauf ist nur mit Mühe zu erkennen, allzu oft philosophiert Mifti nur mehr oder weniger stilvoll über ihr Leben oder darüber, wie sie dieses noch weiter zerstören kann. Darüber hinaus gibt es außer der Protagonistin kaum erwähnenswerte Charaktere. Keiner ist wirklich ausgereift oder für das Geschehen von Bedeutung, es scheint sich bei allen lediglich um Randpersonen zu handeln, die nur dazu da sind, die Selbstdarstellung der Protagonistin zu unterstützen.
Schaut man sich nun noch das umfangreiche Quellenverzeichnis, das dem Roman nachträglich hinzugefügt wurde, an, so stellt man unweigerlich fest, dass - zumindest für meinen Geschmack - einfach zu viele Passagen aus dem Buch "geklaut" sind. Die Autorin hat sich für ihr Romandebüt bei so einigen Quellen bedient und mir zwingt sich der Eindruck auf, sie hätte verschiedene Gedanken anderer mit ihren eigenen zusammen in einen Topf geworfen, zusammengemischt, durchgeschüttelt und mit Fäkalausdrücken und (Tabu-) Themen versehen, um das alles in Form eines literarischen Experiments völlig durcheinander und zusammenhanglos aufzuschreiben, auf dass sich die Welt darüber aufrege - und das hat sie ja dann auch getan.
"Ihr Debüt ist ein wütender Adoleszensroman, den die Erkenntnis schmerzt, dass alles Entscheidende schon gesagt ist". Dieses Zitat von Maria Delius (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), das einem in seinen knallpinken Lettern geradezu vom schwarzen Einband des Buches entgegenspringt, leitet mein Schlusswort zu Helene Hegemanns Roman ein: Auch wenn alles Entscheidende scheinbar schon gesagt ist, so sollte man wenigstens den Anstand besitzen, und es in eigenen Worten formulieren anstatt einfach wortwörtlich von anderen Autoren zu stehlen und deren Gedanken für die eigenen auszugeben. Kann man das nicht, so sollte man das Schreiben vielleicht besser sein lassen, oder es anderen überlassen.
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Jan 12, 2012 Caro Buchheim rated it did not like it

[13/2010] "Helene Hegemann - komplett überflüssig. Oder?"

"eigentlich mag ich hype-bücher und gewalt-blut-schleim-bücher. [ein paar meiner all time faves sind american psycho, bright lights, big city, irre und generation x und selbst die feuchtgebiete sind in meiner erinnerung irgendwie gut, auch wenn ich immer noch der ansicht bin, dass niemand das buch veröffentlicht hätte, wenn es nicht von genau dieser autorin gewesen wäre.]

folgerichtig habe ich den axolotl gelesen. hatte ich bestellt, bevor ...more

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Oct 07, 2011 Meor rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic, français

I really think that I loved that book, but I also need to read it again.
It's strange, sophisticated and extremely raw.

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Apr 08, 2010 Wonghamma rated it did not like it

most awful book ever

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Jul 31, 2012 Petr rated it it was ok · review of another edition

O. K., noc, zase jednou tenhle zápas se smrtí, útržky spánku týraného strachem, můj dětský pokoj, jímž otřásají osudově mocné orchestry, a všechny tyhle hlasy lupičů ze zadního dvora, které nepřetržitě křičí moje jméno. Žádný hluk hlavní ulice ani nářek trpících příšer vynikajících v síle a ohavnosti, jež jsou právě odpoutávány. Pouze klaviatura absolutní temnoty, vřískot hlavně, tohle nerytmické bubnování, sakra. Dřív tohle všecko byla jen taková pěkně pubertální slátanina, a teď je to náročná

O. K., noc, zase jednou tenhle zápas se smrtí, útržky spánku týraného strachem, můj dětský pokoj, jímž otřásají osudově mocné orchestry, a všechny tyhle hlasy lupičů ze zadního dvora, které nepřetržitě křičí moje jméno. Žádný hluk hlavní ulice ani nářek trpících příšer vynikajících v síle a ohavnosti, jež jsou právě odpoutávány. Pouze klaviatura absolutní temnoty, vřískot hlavně, tohle nerytmické bubnování, sakra. Dřív tohle všecko byla jen taková pěkně pubertální slátanina, a teď je to náročná literatura.

A to je právě ten problém. I zázračné dítě — Helene Hegemann napsala Axolotla v sedmnácti — je pořád dítě. A má své meze.

Je až dojemné, jak úporně se autorka snaží šokovat čtenáře, jenže dnes to už nejde, protože se může všechno. Západ se postupně dostal za koncept hříchu, nezdvořilosti, nechutnosti. Tabu neexistují. A co je důležité, neexistují už tak dlouho, že rodičovská generace je na to zvyklá, přinejmenším ta její část, která je trendy, cool a in. Co má pak dělat chudák teenager? Snad jediné, čím ještě dokáže hrdinka Mifti (a autorka) provokovat, je občas se zmínit o Foucaultovi a Heideggerovi. To nás starší vytočit možná dokáže, protože tohle jsme většinou vzdali, uznali svou neschopnost. Koks a večírky, to je jiná. Co nám, milé děti, o tomhle můžete říct nového?

A tak je výsledkem hlavně nuda. Paradoxně, protože pod chaotickými feťáckými impresemi je silný příběh — příběh dětství hlavní hrdinky Mifti. Autorka ho totálně zabila, patrně z obav, aby si nezadala s něčím tak konvenčním, jako je normální vyprávění. Když se několikrát pozapomene a naznačí, je to síla:

Nedávno jsem četla knížku o spoluzávislosti a nenašla žádný objasňující model, který by se dal na můj případ uplatnit. Analyzovali tam nejrůznější rodinný uspořádání, ale drogově závislí rodiče samoživitelé s jedináčkama ve věku od tří do třinácti let se tam prostě a jednoduše nevyskytovali.

Psát Helene Hegemann rozhodně umí. Časem zjistí, o čem to má smysl a o čem ne. Axolotl roadkill je špatná knížka, ve které jsou schovány nějaké budoucí, lepší. ...more

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May 20, 2010 Richard rated it did not like it

Shelves: translation

Couple of interesting neologisms (potentially interesting from a translator's perspective), otherwise just another (albeit brutally hyped) angry-young-teen-contemplating-her-navel novel and a rather monotonous exercise in stream of consciousness. Perhaps her self-parodying "Axel hole den Rotkohl" will be better...

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Mar 28, 2013 Jake Goretzki rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2013

It's impossible to look at this without leaping to the (normally extraneous and irrelevant) fact of the writer's age (Helene Hegemann is calendar-flippingly precocious and I came to it, like many, on the back of 'Generation Zero' / Literary Sensation coverage).

Look, it's a forceful debut. She's obviously got potential and - at moments - she can write (the sound of a leg injury 'like someone biting into an apple through a loudspeaker' and suchlike).

But otherwise, it's shapeless, meaningless, na ...more

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Aug 10, 2013 Janne Paananen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: esikoisromaani

Aksolotli on mielenkiintoinen esikoisteos. Kirjailija myöntää avoimesti käyttäneensä tekstiin lähes suoria lainauksia toisen kirjoittamasta blogista. Tarina kertoo Berliiniläisistä nuorista, joiden elämään kuuluu lähinnä huumeita ja seksiä. Tarinan päähenkilö, Mifti, on Berliinin kaduilla notkuva ja asuva nuori, jonka sadistinen äiti on kuollut. Miftin läheiset ihmiset ovatkin hänen käyttäjäystäviään, joiden kanssa eläminen on sekavaa, rujoa ja jopa iljettävää. Hegemann onnistuu kuvaamaan tätä e ...more

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Jun 30, 2012 Dan Holloway rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If you enjoyed The Dead Beat you will love this. It's been at the centre of a maelstrom of controversy owing to the plagiarism allegations. I won't comment on that much here other than to say this is the kind of book that publishers will see more and more as alt lit overgrounds itself, its authors thoroughly immersed in and drawing from the culture that surrounds them in order to express themselves. There is, as some reviewers have noted, a self-consciousness here that will be by no means to eve ...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Emma rated it it was ok

It's difficult to rate this. There seems to be a lot of focus on the plagiarism discussion which is obviously of interest. Sometimes it angered me, other
times I swam along with the madness. There were moments of genius in it but I'm not quite convinced.

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Sep 10, 2017 kari rated it did not like it

Uh, nope. Whenever the narrator comes close to being honest, it's quickly covered with cheap wit, song lyrics, and attempts at philosophy. And the axolotl metaphor couldn't be more ham-fisted, it's literally spelled out for the reader. I hoped for something as moving and raw as "Wir Kinder von Bahnhof Zoo", perhaps even more touching and more on time - but I got a book which I tried to read really fast, just to escape the pretentious narrative.

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May 21, 2014 Thomas Hübner rated it did not like it

http://www.mytwostotinki.com/?p=187

The Making of a Bestseller

16-year old Mifti, the hero of the novel “Axolotl Roadkill” by Helene Hegemann, is a kind of female Holden Caulfield transferred in time and space to the early 21st century techno clubs of Berlin.

The book was a minor sensation when it came out in Germany in 2010, and the 17-old wunderkind author became the darling of a certain part of the literary feuilleton and media.

I read the book soon after it was published in Germany and was taken http://www.mytwostotinki.com/?p=187

The Making of a Bestseller

16-year old Mifti, the hero of the novel “Axolotl Roadkill” by Helene Hegemann, is a kind of female Holden Caulfield transferred in time and space to the early 21st century techno clubs of Berlin.

The book was a minor sensation when it came out in Germany in 2010, and the 17-old wunderkind author became the darling of a certain part of the literary feuilleton and media.

I read the book soon after it was published in Germany and was taken aback. What was hyped by some reviewers as the work of a new literary genius turned out to be 200-odd pages of revolting and not very well written fuck-and-vomit prose, mixed with half-digested (and quarter-understood) theory jargon, and the usual name-, label- and location-dropping that is supposed to excite a certain category of Berlin hipsters, but that is simply a sign for an inflated ego of the “author” (Regarding the “authorship” of this book see below). Rarely in my life was I bored more as when I was forcing myself through this book.

It turned out that a very big part of this so-called novel was plagiarized (without mentioning sources) from a variety of books and other texts. Only in later editions, the publisher mentioned all(?) sources. But “theft remains theft”, as the author Helmut Krausser remarked in this context, and to argue that everybody is doing it nowadays shows only a lack of reflection and hints at lustful self-deception.

A well-connected father (Herr Hegemann is a famous dramaturg in Berlin) who can pull a few strings in the publishing and media scene, a publishing house (Ullstein) that was a bit too eager to produce a new literary wunderkind, reviewers that in all seriousness praised the "authenticity" of the plagiarized novel and that are obviously blind when the author fulfills their two main quality criteria (“young and female”), and a girl that knew how to put together a novel mainly with the copy-and-paste function of her laptop – these are the ingredients of this case, the initial big success and the scandal that was following.

What Hegemann and her supporters seem not to understand until today is that there is a difference between intertextuality and plagiarism. That she (and even a reviewer in the “Guardian”) claims until today that she “took” just a few lines from other authors is appalling. I remember that in an article of the Frankfurter Allgemeine it was proved in detail that a very big part of the book is a mechanical copy of texts written by people other than Fräulein H.

Sorry when I sound a bit misogynic this time. But I found it extremely annoying that this rag of a book took so much attention from other much more worthy works of contemporary literature (also by female authors).

“Axolotl Roadkill” is interesting as a media phenomenon but not as a novel. Zero out of five stars. 'Nuff said.

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Mar 08, 2013 Rinoa Heartilly rated it liked it

Shelves: all-my-love, bitchy-rich-girls, these-sound-awesome

I'm not sure what I am to say about this book. I've been putting off reading it for a long time now and I'm not really sure if I regret that or not.

Axolotl Roadkill is, ultimately, not much of a novel at all. Our protagonist, Mifti (btw, I googlechecked and that is not a name so take that as you will) is little more than an instrument for Hegemann to express her own frustration (infatuation?) with our world. At 17 (I think that's how old she was idk), her writing and points are utterly pretentio I'm not sure what I am to say about this book. I've been putting off reading it for a long time now and I'm not really sure if I regret that or not.

Axolotl Roadkill is, ultimately, not much of a novel at all. Our protagonist, Mifti (btw, I googlechecked and that is not a name so take that as you will) is little more than an instrument for Hegemann to express her own frustration (infatuation?) with our world. At 17 (I think that's how old she was idk), her writing and points are utterly pretentious and this may well be what she was going for all along, Axolotl Roadkill has the trash chic appeal of old army boots over glitter leggings and it captures the teenage mindset quite well. Notably, the writing changes over the course of the book, from confusing but in its ability to confuse you admirable pseudophilosophing laced with grand words to a sort of bleak and while not particularly meager kind of quiet style.

It's not a very funny, happy or enjoyable story and while the gist of it may be overly familiar to experienced readers ("depressed" girl does a lot of drugs/has a lot of sex while contemplating life), the way it is presented here is actually kind of awesome. Hegemann drops names and brands like nothing else and it serves as an undercurrent to root this in reality. The frantic way especially the beginning was written makes it a little challenge to keep straight who was who and some things while hinted at will only open themselves to you in the middle of the book. Some things are actually never really explained at all and left for you to ponder over at the end of the book. There are parts were you can't discern who is supposed to be speaking and surreality pervades certain parts. I personally kind of feel the need to reread it.

Also, it has something I absolutely adore in books and pretty much everything else: (view spoiler). The title is, in retrospect, also surprisingly poignant.

I don't really feel like commenting on the plagiarism debate (like I said in one of my updates, she literally uses entire paragraphs from other books but she does credit them), only that the concept of intertextuality is the fucking funniest thing I've ever heard of.

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Jul 28, 2012 Dirk Baranek rated it it was ok

Ich hab's tatsächlich gekauft (im Ramsch bei 2001 für 4,95)! Muss. Mir. Ein. Eigenes. Bild. Machen.
Nach 110 Seiten: Meine Güte, wie kann ein solch pubertärer amateurpsychologischer Schrott nur derartige Wellen schlagen? Versteh es nicht.
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Ausschnitte aus dem Leben einer 17jährigen Schülerin. Die Mutter manisch krank, der abwesende Vater mit bürgerlicher Existenz, die Umstände voller Verwahrlosung und Haltlosigkeit. Das Ergebnis ist eine hypernervöse Überspanntheit, die sich in den Wirrnis ...more

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Aug 31, 2015 Charlie rated it did not like it

Shelves: german-author, flops, 2015read, dnf

Ich bin ehrlich, ich habe nur bis Seite 41 gelesen; mir reicht das trotzdem, um mir ein Urteil über dieses Buch zu bilden.
Mal ganz abgesehen von den Plagiatsvorwürfen:
Das ist kein besonderer Stil - das ist eine Zumutung. Ich konnte zwischen den Kapiteln keinen inhaltlichen Zusammenhang erkennen. Es waren nur aneinander gereihte, drogengeschwängerte Momente, die scheinbar besonders "cool" wirken sollten. Von den Dialogen ganz zu schweigen.

Dies ist kein besonderes Buch. Jedenfalls kein besonders g ...more

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Feb 26, 2014 Stargirl rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: in-french, not-owned, standalone-novels, dnf

Yep got to say I haven't finished it. I read more than half of the book when I realised I didn't care at all and didn't see the point to continue. I don't do this very often but i have apparenlty no patience left today...

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Jul 19, 2011 Samantha rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Surreal, well written, interesting storyline. I really enjoyed this, and finished reading it in Berlin and on my way back in the train.

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Aug 23, 2017 Christie K.Rowling rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporanea-realista, v-1-estrella-malisimos

Horrible. Es lo peor que he leído en años. Ordinario, cutre y mal estructurado. CERO

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Feb 21, 2010 Johannes rated it did not like it

heul doch

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Feb 02, 2014 Babetik rated it did not like it

sick book. I never read something like this. I am so lost in it and also the storyline is just nasty. I dont know how they make to print it...

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May 13, 2017 Richard Gray rated it did not like it

Shelves: translation, deargodno

This is what happens when tumblr becomes sentient and writes a novel.

Even allowing for some of the nuance to be lost in translation, the pinball machinations of Hegemann's narrative voice are erratic, unlikable, and downright impenetrable most of the time. It's as if all of Hegemann's neurons misfired simultaneously, and the result was a cacophony of noise that samples every pop-cultural reference that has every wafted across the writer's brainpan. As one of the characters tells Mifti, the prota ...more

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Sep 11, 2017 Annschi rated it it was ok

Ich habe Hegemann kürzlich in einer Diskussionssendung im ZDF (o.ä.) gesehen (es kommt ja nun der Film zum Buch raus), und da wurde über ihr Buch gesprochen, als ob es hohe Literatur sei und man das jetzt endlich sehen könne, da die ganze Diskussion ums Abschreiben abgeebbt sei. Das hat mich dann neugierig gemacht.
Grundsätzlich war es interessant, den Roman fast direkt nach Barnes Nachtgewächs zu lesen, weil beide ähnliche Themen an ähnlichen Orten behandeln. Leider ist Axolotl Roadkill ein schl ...more

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Aug 17, 2017 Ef Grey rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Po knize jsem sáhla jenom kvůli již dříve zhlédnutému filmu, takže jsem asi měla vysoké očekávání (protože film byl epic). Každopádně jsem asi z tohoto tématu vyrostla, ale tohle mě vůbec neuchvátilo. Něco na styl Irvina Welshe, ale to bylo beztak kvůli sexu a heroinu. Každopádně jsem asi z tohoto tématu vyrostla, ale tohle mě vůbec neuchvátilo. /Možná, že by mě už teď nebavil ani ten Welsh./
Samozřejmě je pak tady přetřásaná otázka plagiátorství, intertextuality, postmoderny, apod., jelikož si a ...more

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Oct 09, 2017 Kat rated it did not like it

I did not finish this book.
There are books I don’t finish and I feel bad after I put them away, like I missed out on something, or I didn’t get the deeper meaning and my not finishing the book reflects on my inability to see the message. If this book had a message it should be ‘do not buy’ printed on its cover.
There is no plot, besides party and drugs. And this is done badly. Every line screams ‘I never had fun, but I enjoy fantasizing about it’.
Everything in this book has been done before, an ...more

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Feb 13, 2018 Elaine Ruth Boe rated it did not like it

Shelves: school-reads

I read this for my course on the contemporary canon. Our main discussion around this German translation was about the reception of the book and its plagiarism scandal. Hegemann lifted whole passages of the novel from a blogger's less successful book. But she claimed that her 'mixing' of sources wasn't plagiarism, but her generation's response to an online culture of borrowing and mixing of creativity. Hegemman's age (she was 17 when the book was published) and gender also featured heavily in new ...more

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Jun 09, 2018 Tatiana Kubicová rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Bože. Predovšetkým by som teda rada neocenila štýl, ktorým je kniha napísaná, tuším sa pre to hodí literárny termín "debilný". Žiadne úvodzovky, vnútorné hlasy alter eg blekotajúce nezmysly,.. čo by som vedela zniesť, keby sa tam dialo niečo zaujímavé. Za zaujímavé ale nepovažujem duševné rozpoloženie rozmaznanej berlínskej princeznej, umelkyne so zlomeným srdcom a vnútorným bordelom, z akého by sa spotil aj C.G.Jung. Postavy dobrovoľne vedú šialené, odpudivé a tak retardované dialógy, že som si ...more

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Nov 29, 2017 Sarah Ricarda rated it really liked it

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Ein Buch, bei dem ich mich nicht entscheiden kann, ob es großer Mist oder große Genialität ist. Ich tendiere zum letzteren. Sprachlich gibt es auf jeden Fall wunderbare Perlen und Sätze, die mich tief erschüttert haben. Und der Rausch, der sich beim Lesen einstellt, deckt sich mit der Geschichte. Insgesamt bleibt ein positiv verstörender Nachgeschmack, der mich noch eine Weile beschäftigen wird. (Ich kann an dieser Stelle die Verfilmung sehr empfehlen. Anders, stringenter, genauso rauschhaft und ...more

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Helene Hegemann is a German writer, director, and actress. As a young writer her work was highly praised, but her first novel, Axolotl Roadkill, sparked a plagiarism controversy.

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