Paul Ingendaay and Jerry Hoffman on a queer classic and the too-short life of Brazilian author Victor Heringer
“The Love of Singular Men” is truly a singular novel. It’s ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone”, says Zadie Smith about the novel by Brazilian author Victor Heringer, who died by suicide in 2018 at the age of 29.
Paul Ingendaay introduces us to an author whose linguistic intuition will live on. Heringer’s haunting novel, “The Love of Singular Men”, is a no-holds-barred analysis of Brazilian society, which has never been able to completely process its own dictatorial past, combined with a queer coming-of-age story containing precise language for both cruelty and tenderness. German text: Jerry Hoffmann
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Jerry Hoffmann
Born in 1989 in Hamburg, actor and director Jerry Hoffmann studied in… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
Paul Ingendaay
Paul Ingendaay was born in Cologne in 1961. He lived in Madrid for… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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