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Hominid (novel)
''Hominid'' is a short novel by Austrian writer Klaus Ebner. Taking place millions of years ago, it is a fictional story of a band of extinct hominids who inhabit Central Africa. Referencing the seven days of biblical Creation, the novel takes place in seven days. As the protagonist Pitar leads his band to civilization, tension arises between the clan leader Costello and his rival Re. Over the course of the story, Pitar invents tools, discovers the use of fire, and falls in love with Maluma. The seventh day marks a turning point in the storyline, as the members of the band separate from one another.
The characters' contemporary language and Pitar's thorough knowledge of modern-day history, philosophy and science add to the grotesque humor of the novel, while his two friends quote classical Roman literature and Chinese sayings. The book was published by Viennese publisher FZA Verlag in October 2008. Between 2008 and 2010, several Austrian and German critics and writers published reviews of the novel.
== Background ==
Ebner first considered writing a novel in which prehistoric characters have present-day knowledge and a modern language in 2006.〔Gamsjäger, Sonja: ''Gespräch mit Autoren'', p. 16.〕 Believing that this topic would not suffice for a long novel, he initially did not pursue the idea. In February 2008 Ebner won the Wiener Werkstattpreis in the categories of short story and essay—in addition to the prize money the organizer of the award, the Viennese publishing house FZA, offers to the winner to publish a 100-page book. Hence Ebner wrote and finalized his narrative within four months. The book was published in the October of the same year with the German title ''Hominide''.〔 The publisher introduced the work to the public with a public reading in Vienna.〔(Invitation of publisher FZA to the public reading. Retrieved on 2009-03-22. )〕
The novel consists of seven chapters, "Day 1" to "Day 7", with the action of each chapter occurring on consecutive days. The chapters refer to the seven days of the biblical Creation.〔Reichel, Ingrid. “Es lebe die Satire!” Review on ''Hominide''. In: etcetera, St. Pölten 2009, p 76.〕 In comparison with other works of Ebner, ''Hominid'' is the first to be about a prehistoric subject. The author had already addressed topics of religious faith before, in the short stories “Der Schreiber von Aram (The Scribe of Aram)”〔Published by the literary magazine “die Rampe 2/94”, Linz 1994, ISBN 3-85320-679-4.〕 and “Momentaufnahme (Snapshot)”,〔Published in the book ''Lose (Destinies)'', Edition Nove, Neckenmarkt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85251-197-9.〕 and frequently used a satirical style for his narratives.〔See Rafael, Julia. “Critic review” of the book ''Lose''. In: Literarisches Österreich nr. 1 (2008), page 27., and Götz, Hermann. “Lob dem Quickie”, critic review of the book ''Auf der Kippe''. In: Schreibkraft nr. 18 (2009), page 66.〕
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