SB - The Swiss List – serie
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In this companion to Urs Widmer's novel "My Mother's Lover", the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents' stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is lost soon after his death, his son resolves to rewrite it. Here, we get to know Karl's friends - a collection of anti-fascist painters and architects known as Group 33. We learn of the early years of Karl's marriage and follow his military service as the Swiss fear a German invasion during World War II, his political activity for the Communist Party, and his brief career as a teacher. We are told of Karl's literary translations of his favorite French books, and, most important, the eerie and ever-present coffins outside the houses in the home village of Karl's father, one reserved for each individual from the day he or she is born. Widmer brilliantly combines family history and historical events to tell the story of a man more at home in the world of the imagination than in the real world, a father who grows on the reader, just as he grows on his son.
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A fire broke out in the coal seams of their town years ago, and the flames are still smoldering underground. Margaret and Fritzi, the two sisters who are the heroines of "Invitation to the Bold of Heart", the debut novel by Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger, are the last remaining youth of this vanishing town. Their inheritance is nothing but an abandoned swathe of land ruled by devastation. But the sisters won't accept this state of affairs - they set out on an expedition, determined to piece together the fragments of their family history. Only by learning their own story can they look to the future with hope. When they rediscover a long-forgotten river, Margaret and Fritzi can sense a new life ahead. "Invitation to the Bold of Heart" is a startling dystopian tale of hope and exploration and a testament to the timeless need of youth to rebel against authority.
On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest
The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
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"The Lectures on Poetics" series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Theodor Adorno, and Heinrich Boll. At the beginning of 2007, Urs Widmer - described by the "Independent" as "one of the living greats of Swiss literature" - spoke to more than twelve hundred students and enthusiasts, sharing the sum of his understandings of poets and their timeless creations. In "On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest", English-language readers will gain access to Widmer's historic talks for the first time through Donal McLaughlin's excellent translation. Here, Widmer imparts his views on the poet as deviant and sufferer, and as the conduit for the dream of singing to the imagination in the nameless voice of the people. In this book, one of our finest living writers shares his experience of life as an author and as a devotee of the printed word with a new and enthusiastic readership.