{"product_id":"motherdying","title":"Motherdying","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most immediate things pain teaches us is that there are no words to express pain. It is precisely this that makes Michael Lentz’s \u003cem\u003eMotherdying\u003c\/em\u003e such an achievement, for its subject matter is the universal and inescapable pain of losing one’s mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow translated into English for the first time, \u003cem\u003eMotherdying\u003c\/em\u003e was recognised in Germany as a work of literary brilliance. In 2001, it won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, with critics acknowledging it as a necessary break from the platitudes of mourning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMotherdying\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a chronicle of the dying body and a psychic inventory of grief. The narrator’s childhood self watches flies caught in wet paint on a whitewashed house; his father retrieves a box of love letters, long put away but never discarded; his mother can no longer bear to look out the hospital window. For Lentz, language is material. A student of sound-actionist Josef Anton Riedl and a saxophonist-composer of the German avant-garde, he fuses literature and sound alongside his ensemble, Sprechakte X\/TREME. In \u003cem\u003eMotherdying\u003c\/em\u003e, the language of pain is not figurative: a cry or scream doesn’t point outward; it simply occurs. Words and sentences fuse or break apart. Memories, quotations, and history surface unannounced, without a supervising consciousness to explain them. In Lentz’s prose, grammar doesn’t express grief – grammar is the grief.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ISOLARII","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52579243950369,"sku":"9798987123157","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9798987123157.jpg?v=1776475499","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/motherdying","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}