Red (Hunger)

About the loneliness of the body and our language of love
Our language of love is cannibalistic. We say: You're good enough to eat. I could just eat you up.
In love, the person we love is always too far away. The person is always missing, even when he or she is standing in front of us.
In "Red(Hunger)" two stories become one. The story of one year, after a separation. And the story of one day: March 9, 2001, when, as previously agreed, A kills B in his house in Rotenburg, dismembers him and eats parts of his dead body.
The author takes the cannibalistic dimension in our language of love seriously. With lyrical intensity and philosophical rigor, Varatharajah tells of the encounter between two lovers that ends in an act of cannibalism.
This is a love story. This is how the novel starts.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 23.02.2022
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-397075-3
  • 120 Pages
  • Author: Senthuran Varatharajah
Red (Hunger)
Senthuran Varatharajah Red (Hunger)
Holm Burgemann
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Senthuran Varatharajah

Senthuran Varatharajah, born 1984, studied philosophy, theology and cultural science in Marburg, Berlin, and London. In 2014, he was awarded the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Artist in Residence Stipend, the Alfred Döblin Stipend of the Berliner Akademie der Künste, as well as the 3sat Prize during the network’s 38 Days of German Literature. Further awards include the Promotional Kranichstein Literature Prize (2016) and in 2017, the Promotional Literature Prize of the City of Bremen, the Adelbert von Chamisso Promotional Prize and the Literature Prize of the Town of Rauris.