Norah Lange (23 October 1905 - August 4, 1972)
Norah Lange is the muse of Ultraismo. The Ultraismus was a literary movement that was first established in 1918 by English avant-garde artists to oppose the prevailing modernism a new movement. belonged to the founders of Jorge Luis Borges, who was then living in Madrid. Followers of Ultraismo were inspired by the Italian and Russian Futurists, Dadaism and French surrealism. The aim of this was a revolutionary current aesthetic upheaval: the Civil they should at last face the reality of the modern era with all its implications.
was hardly Jorge Luis Borges returned to Argentina, Norah Lange was one of his circle. With him she made a variety of literary events and brought out with him literary magazines. She was a master of disguise and celebration. As adults, the Argentine took the writer back to play. In the avant-garde circles of Buenos Aires danced in the 1920s and early 1930s, jumped, sang and danced by Dada enchanted young artists to young children.
So it was no coincidence that in 1905 Norah Lange was born in 1937 their childhood books ( Cuadernos de infancia ) published. They consist of a series of short anecdotes. Anecdotes that can be experienced as a child and burn themselves into your brain forever memorable. These are the events that will help in growing up, even if it is for the child at the moment no matter how painful or hurtful. Norah Lange reported in a story on how it is delivered by her father to her table and then a trouser suit is tightened. As people pulled up their pants and the carrier, the mother says: "Now it really looks like a little boy! "
The special charm of the tales of Norah Lange is in their honest childhood. The word naive would be inappropriate. The author has kept her childhood in a way that they put in a position to write how they felt as a little girl, she thought. As the situations in which we adults often without thinking, forced into it. The reader has the feeling: That was written a girl. So she describes her feelings when she stands before the entire family with the dark blue trouser suit on the table:
"My eyes started to burn, and suddenly I felt abandoned and ridiculous. I thought they wanted to embarrass me on purpose and slowly rose in the first sob to me, angry and defiant. I did not cry. It seemed absurd, dressed as a man to cry, and I let out a scream. "
as Norah is five years old, the family moved into the province of Mendoza. With the train journey there used their memories. The family is wealthy. Norah has seven siblings. You move into a big house, have a whole series officials. The fate begins to turn, when his father died in 1915. Now have to live with the family of the limited income of untended vines. In one of the short episodes in Argentina often tells the excellent writer, as is the piano on which they played, all the sisters and the mother picked up. The mother had had to sell it out of financial difficulties.
the age of 14 began Norah Lange to write poems. In the early 1920s she met Jorge Luis Borges. 1921 and 1922 are both involved in wall-posters that are pasted on the walls of the city. 1924 published her first book of poems - with a foreword by Borges. Later, she and her husband, the poet Oliverio Girondo, the famous and glamorous couple of the Argentine avant-garde. Norah Lange died in 1972.
The German first publication is an introduction to the author by the translator Inca torture and an epilogue, Argentina, living in Berlin author María Cecilia Barbetta. The series' Lilienfeldiana " guaranteed bibliophile design: The band is decorated with a painting by Andrea Lehmann, black linen, bound and bookmark their rest do.
Norah Lange, childhood issues. 240 pages, half-cloth, sewn binding, ribbon bookmark. Lilienfeld Verlag, Dusseldorf 2010, € 19,90.
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