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And I Shook a Darling

Friederike Mayröcker · 2005 CE · Poem · German · Contemporary

A prose poem of mourning for the poet Ernst Jandl, written in an unbroken, associative stream that keeps addressing him as though he were present. It is one of the principal late works of Mayröcker, who received the Büchner Prize in 2001.

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Attributes

Genre
Psychological
Theme
Death & MortalityLoveMemory & TimeArt & Creation
Form
MeditationNonlinear / Fractured
Symbol / motif
The Book / Manuscript
Mode / tone
LyricalElegiacModernist
Culture / tradition
German

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