Zeh, Juli
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1974- ) German author whose fiction typically transgresses the "realistic" modes it harnesses. Of sf interest are Schilf (2007; trans Christine Lo as Dark Matter 2010; vt Free Fall), a noir thriller whose investigative deconstruction of a world where outcomes can be traced in advance is shaped by metafictional discussions between two physicists, one of whom may be just ahead of the cutting edge of contemporary Physics; in Corpus Delicti (2009; trans Sally-Ann Spencer as The Method 2012), a Near Future surveillance Dystopia is governed on coercive Eugenic lines, the eponymous Method being a compulsory health diet (plus other restrictions). In both novels, the Satire of a modern world on the cusp of falling into post-historical, Posthuman fixity is a conveyed primarily through sharply edged, interrogatory dialogue, at times evocative of a similar recourse in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): Corpus Delicti has been staged as a play. [JC]
Juli Zeh
born Bonn, Germany: 30 June 1974
works (selected)
- Schilf (Berlin: Schöffling and Co Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2007) [hb/]
- Dark Matter (London: Harvill Secker, 2010) [trans by Christine Lo of the above: pb/]
- Free Fall (New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group/Nan A Talese, 2010) [vt of the above: hb/]
- Dark Matter (London: Harvill Secker, 2010) [trans by Christine Lo of the above: pb/]
- Corpus Delicti (Berlin: Schöffling and Co Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2009) [hb/]
- The Method (London: Harvill Secker, 2012) [trans by Sally-Ann Spencer of the above: hb/Gallerystock and AKG Images]
links
previous versions of this entry