Paul Ingendaay und Jerry Hoffmann über ein queeres Meisterwerk und das zu kurze Leben des Brasilianers Victor Heringer

"The Love of Isolated Men" really is a unique novel. Heringer's writing is as brilliant as Cortázar or Nabokov, as elliptical as Grace Paley, as funny as Donald Barthelme. When you finish this book, you immediately want to meet the young man who wrote it, shake his hand vigorously and congratulate him on the start of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone," says Zadie Smith about the novel by Brazilian author Victor Heringer, who took his own life in 2018 at the age of 29.
Paul Ingendaay introduces us to an author whose sense of language is here to stay: Heringer's haunting novel "The Love of Isolated Men" is an unsparing analysis of Brazilian society, which has never been able to properly come to terms with its own dictatorship past, combined with a flowing, queer coming-of-age story. In doing so, he finds a precise language for cruelty and tenderness in equal measure. German text: Jerry Hoffmann

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