The Marble Song, situated in London and Lucerne, is a novel about an obsession, or rather fixation, with the writer Hedda Södervedt as developed by Lionel Flower, a second-rate journalist and writer.
He tries to establish contact with her, eventually with success, and will in fact be commissioned to write a "dual life" of Södervedt and Aaron Proctor. But there is a significant interference in the shape of Claudia, a Swiss designer, who keeps writing emails to Lionel. She found a number of his texts in the internet and has grown extremely fond of them and, she thinks, their author, too. She hopes, or so it seems, to enter a relationship with him but when he finally succumbs to her desire to visit her in Lucerne, the encounter causes nothing but disillusion and disappointment, mainly on Claudia’s part.
Watch the recording of the event 'The Marble Song: a Novel – a Commented Reading with Rüdiger Görner', hosted by The Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft Rhein-Main e.V. on Thursday, June 24, 2021.