Wrestling a Greased Pig in the Dark

Wrestling a Greased Pig in the Dark

Now, let’s get back to the notion that in a novel, something else has to happen - other than breakfast, that is. What will that ‘something else’ be, and how does the novelist go about choosing it? Usually it’s backwards to what you were taught in school, where you the process is much more like wrestling a greased pig in the dark.                                         Margaret Atwood, Curious Pursuits

Der Ringkampf mit dem eingefetteten Schwein kommt der Übersetzerin bekannt vor ....

 

 

Berlin, 27.06.2017