Ja, Schnecke, ja

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Moderation: Torsten Hoffmann

"How much longer can it withstand this madness, the house, which in and of itself is probably steadfast?" Jan Snela

It's a big mess we're in - we humans, we animals, we plants. How we can meet each other, how we love in all the variations between man and woman, between robots and other living beings, between Eastern and Western tradition, is what Jan
Snela's new novel "Yes, snail, yes". His "real theme, however, is the language he chooses - or that chooses him - for this story from the fantastic world of a poet of epic short messages left alone in his room," writes the impressed writer Katja Lange-Müller about the text. Her boyfriend Hannes is suspicious of the fact that Amanda is drawn to the Japanese women's university in Nara to study an unusual species of snail that can separate from its body. Left alone with Amanda's mice, he feels like a discarded snail limb himself. The situation only changes when Hajo enters Hannes' life, but his affection is actually for the pair of mice. With his very own humor, Snela explores what answers are hidden in the big questions of our time. Jan Snela, born in Munich in 1980, made his debut with "Milchgesicht", published by Klett-Cotta. Together with Viktoria Theil, he curates the "literaturlabor_u35".