A Glass Door, Wide Open

When Christoph Meckel’s Gesammelte Gedichte (Collected Poems) were published in 2015, an oeuvre came to light that the Spiegel said “could also be read as an artist’s novel … fantastically populated by figures from the Bible and myths, the living and the dead.” Christoph Meckel’s prose, gathered together for the first time from long-forgotten sources, is the other part of this artist’s novel: it tells of the “Bucklicht Männlein”, a story that already haunted his childhood dreams, of Monsieur Bernstein, and of what a poet does and how he himself became one.
Eine Tür aus Glas, weit offen reveals the huge breadth of Christoph Meckel’s writing, which is both intimately autobiographical and expansively poetic.