Tomboy
“The rhythm really grabs you.  There are few authors, with whom this is the case.  You can hardly stop reading.” –Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature“The curious thing about this book:  what sounds like a repulsively trendy idea in summary actually makes for pleasurable, funny, witty and exciting reading.” –Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich“[Tomboy] grooves, stops, crunches, broods…Meinecke simulates the spinning of a turntable…[in] the phenomenal performance of this concept-novel.” –Die Tageszeitung, Berlin“Tomboyis a work that relishes its lack of form: it doesn’t care about literary categories…It has nothing to do with the literary tradition, but rather ushers in a bright new one.” –Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt“Thomas Meinecke writes erudite-grotesque comedy, presented with an elegant lightness…Tomboyis neither theory nor ‘beautiful literature’ in the classical sense.   With a grace and conversational style that recalls Thomas Mann,…Meinecke strives for a literary-theoretical middle-ground.” –Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich“[Meinecke] shows his poetic skills not only in the cross-fade, in which philosophical and literary discourses are melded into each other, but also in the juxtaposition of his characters’ mundane realities with their sexually stimulated cerebral pursuits.” –Die Zeit, Hamburg