Die Wüste Lop Nor

by Raoul Schrott

Die Liebe führt Raoul Louper zu Elif, Francesca und Arlette und wieder von ihnen fort in andere Länder, auf andere Kontinente. Raoul Schrott hat eine Geschichte in hundert und einem Kapiteln geschrieben, eine Novelle, die von einem Mann und drei Frauen berichtet, von Reisen und der Begegnung mit dem Fremden.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Prof. dr. Raoul Schrott, is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.

Schrott was raised in Tunis where his father served as an Austrian sales representative. He attended the universities of Norwich, Paris, Berlin and Innsbruck where he studied comparative literature and linguistics.

He was an assistant to French surrealistic poet Philippe Soupault. He earned his PhD in philology (combining linguistics and literary studies), and currently works as professor on many Austrian and foreign universities. He was very much interested in Dada and surrealism movement, and Schrott completed a thesis on 'Dada 1921 - 1922 in Tyrol'. He translated Homer's writings and modern adaptation of the Babylonian-Assyrian Epic of Gilgamesh into German.

Dr. Schrott is a polyglot, particularly acknowledged for his foreign language skills such as Breton, Basque and Occitan, but he also speaks English, French, Italian, Corsican and Gaelic.

Reviews

[Joseph Schreiber · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very, very spare novella—101 short chapters, almost prose poems but not quite. It is a story of one man's relationships with three women, the places those marriages took him, and the way they became undone. Detail is scant, connections are sketched and filled in with sand—dunes, storms, waves of shifting sand. A little science, a fable or two, and ultimately a journey into the desertified heart of China. The work feels, perhaps, a little too empty at first, but it builds, gradually, layer upon layer, to an intriguing reading experience—one that nudges the curious reader to search out some of places visited and promises that deserts and sand dunes will never look quite the same.
A longer review can be found here: https://roughghosts.com/2021/11/28/a-...