Родная речь

Josef Winkler (b.1953) - Austrian writer, winner of numerous literary awards, author of the novels The Human Child (1979), Bitter Orange Cemetery (1990), Jean Genet's Boarding Diary (1992), Natura Morta" (2001) and many others. etc.
"Muttersprache" ("Muttersprache", 1982) is a confessional novel from the "Wild Carinthia" cycle. A hero from a rural Catholic outback, autobiographically close to the author, experiences his "other" essence, the position of a "geek" (homosexual and creatively gifted person) in the aggressive environment of his "native land". In the hope of escaping from the power of his father, he seeks to partake of the Highest authority embodied in the Church and in Literature - in the Word, in "native speech." The path to creative and human freedom is strewn with thorns - it is a never-ending road to Golgotha, and everyone bears his own cross.