Ursula Hentschlaeger

Martscherie or Live in Temptation. SF-Novel.

With Illustrations by Astrid Esslinger.

Triton: Vienna 1995

(...) The future is no longer what it used to be. It has become fairly humdrum, almost as dreary as our day and age. In former times, people still had hopes that things would look up at some point, people still developed terrible apocalyptic visions because they saw humankind fundamentally threatened but today the enthusiasm of confidence and the hell of depression have given way to mediocrity. At least this is what it is like for Ursula Hentschläger, Linz-born, living in Vienna now. Of course, everything is more technicised but the feelings which her literary début is about continue to be the driving forces that get the story underway. It happens although the mystery is set in the distant future, a time when people have allegedly been liberated from their feelings. "Horrible, even the very thought that people are dominated by their feelings is unbearable. You should not even be guided by them for a brief moment." It might not be worded elegantly but it is an expression of the way in which that distant generation sees itself. And it is precisely the emotions of the protagonists which go haywire in the book, giving all of them a hard time. (...).

Anton Thuswaldner Salzburger Nachrichten, 14.10.1995


Martscherie or Live in Temptation. SF-Novel. With Illustrations by Astrid Esslinger. Triton: Vienna 1995 (...) The future is no longer what it used to be. It has become fairly humdrum, almost as dreary as our day and age. In former times, people still had hopes that things would look up at some point, people still developed terrible apocalyptic visions because they saw humankind fundamentally threatened but today the enthusiasm of confidence and the hell of depression have given way to mediocrity. At least this is what it is like for Ursula Hentschläger, Linz-born, living in Vienna now. Of course, everything is more technicised but the feelings which her literary début is about continue to be the driving forces that get the story underway. It happens although the mystery is set in the distant future, a time when people have allegedly been liberated from their feelings. "Horrible, even the very thought that people are dominated by their feelings is unbearable. You should not even be guided by them for a brief moment." It might not be worded elegantly but it is an expression of the way in which that distant generation sees itself. And it is precisely the emotions of the protagonists which go haywire in the book, giving all of them a hard time. (...). Anton Thuswaldner Salzburger Nachrichten, 14.10.1995		Ursula Hentschlaeger Reviews














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