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33 produkter
Invisible Library
Inbunden, 2018
218 kr
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The year is 323 bce. King Alexander of Macedonia--Alexander the Great--lies paralyzed by poison in his palace in Babylon. He is thirty-two years old, had Aristotle as a mentor, and is the greatest military commander the world has ever seen. At the other end of the palace, Phyllis, a cook for …
Noah
A Novel of the Boom Times
Inbunden, 2012
196 kr
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As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financial experts around the world struggle to prevent further financial collapse, everyone has a theory about how to save the economy. But perhaps no idea that has been proffered is as radical or as unique as what Hugo Loetscher imagines in …
Efina
Av Noelle Revaz
Inbunden, 2014
216 kr
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T., an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repulsion. They compulsively write letters - often to express their intense dislike of one another - which are sent or unsent, answered or unanswered. They …
Blue Soda Siphon
Av Urs Widmer
Inbunden, 2014
216 kr
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In the wildly entertaining novel The Blue Soda Siphon, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was …
Mr Adamson
Av Urs Widmer
Inbunden, 2015
255 kr
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The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, the day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that he is recording the story of his adventures with Mr Adamson. In the course of this …
Like Bits of Wind
Selected Poetry and Poetic Prose, 1974-2014
Inbunden, 2016
274 kr
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One of the central figures from a remarkable generation of French-language poets, Pierre Chappuis has thus far only been represented in English translation in fragments: a few poems here and there in magazines, online reviews, and anthologies. Like Bits of Wind rights that wrong, offering a …
From the Berlin Journal
Av Max Frisch, Thomas Strassle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
229 kr
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Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in an interview that this was by no means a "scribbling …
Second Seedtime
Notebooks, 1980-94
Inbunden, 2017
255 kr
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Since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1953, Philippe Jaccottet has sought to express the ineffable that lies at the heart of our material world in his essential, elemental poetry. As one of Switzerland's most prominent and prolific men of letters, Jaccottet has published more than a …
My Mother's Lover
Av Urs Widmer
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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It's Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful, and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. By the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in the country, but she is penniless. And most …
My Father's Book
Av Urs Widmer
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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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 …
On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest
The Frankfurt Lectures on Poetics
Av Urs Widmer
Häftad, 2018
177 kr
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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 …
Calm Fire
And Other Travel Writings
Inbunden, 2018
247 kr
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In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be in short supply. However, the lyrical and philosophical travel writing in Swiss poet Philippe …
Shift Sleepers
Inbunden, 2018
255 kr
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Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, actors, journalists, scholarship holders, logisticians, students, and ghosts. They come from everywhere. They are all representatives of our time, and …
Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
Inbunden, 2019
203 kr
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Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around town. Each street triggers sudden visions as memories from her childhood under the …
My Mother's Tears
Av Michel Layaz
Inbunden, 2019
203 kr
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With subtle, bemused humor and an unerring eye for human frailty, Michel Layaz is known for his tender writing about the hidden tensions within families, the awkwardness of adolescence, and the drama of intimacy between friends and lovers. His fifth novel, My Mother's Tears, is his most poignant …
"Air of Solitude" Followed by "Requiem"
Av Gustave Roud
Inbunden, 2020
218 kr
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Gustave Roud, perhaps the most beloved poet of Swiss Romandy, is widely considered the founder of modern francophone Swiss literature, along with Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Roud lived at his grandfather’s farm in Carrouge, Canton Vaud, for his entire life. In Air of Solitude, the first section of …
Answer from the Silence
A Story from the Mountains
Av Max Frisch
Häftad, 2019
138 kr
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This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: “Why don’t we live when we know we’re here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!” This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the …
Selected Essays
Häftad, 2019
150 kr
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his essays on literary forms as well as those on …
MR Adamson
Av Urs Widmer
Häftad, 2019
138 kr
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The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, the day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that he is recording the story of his adventures with Mr. Adamson. In the course of this …
Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow
Safeguarded Notes, 1952–2005
Inbunden, 2021
277 kr
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Philippe Jaccottet’s newest work follows in some ways the approach of Seedtime, his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry “notes,” this book nonetheless differs from the …
Seedtime III
Notebooks, 1995–1998
Inbunden, 2021
197 kr
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Writers’ notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they coalesce into a labyrinthine map of the creative …
Sketchbooks, 1946-1949
Av Max Frisch
Inbunden, 2022
271 kr
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A new translation of one of the earliest volumes of Max Frisch's innovative notebooks. Throughout his life, the great Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch (1911-1991) kept a series of diaries, or sketchbooks, as they came to be known in English. First published in English translation in the …
Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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Now in paperback, a haunting story of trauma, memory, and healing in post-Cold War Romania.Victoria has just recently moved from Zurich back to her hometown of Bucharest when the bank where she works is robbed. Put on leave so that she can process the trauma of the robbery, Victoria strolls around …
Sketchbook, 1966–1971
Av Max Frisch, Simon Pare
Inbunden, 2023
301 kr
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A fresh translation of the second volume of Max Frisch’s diaries.By the time Swiss author Max Frisch published the second volume of his diaries or sketchbooks, he had achieved international recognition as a writer and dramatist. In this volume, he develops his version of the literary diary as a …
Tamangur
Inbunden, 2025
213 kr
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A hauntingly beautiful debut novel that interweaves grief, memory, and the mystical realm of an ancient forest through eighty-four poignant vignettes.Romansh poet Leta Semadeni’s debut novel, Tamangur, is a multifaceted gem that delves into the shadowed depths of a remote valley in the Engadin …
Answer from the Silence
A Story from the Mountains
Av Max Frisch
Inbunden, 2011
196 kr
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This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: 'Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!' This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary, everyday life uttered by the …
Lyric Novella
Inbunden, 2011
180 kr
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the late 1980s. "Lyric Novella" is her story of a young man's obsession with a Berlin variete actress. Despite having his future career mapped out for him in the diplomatic …
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook
Inbunden, 2014
216 kr
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New York...I HATE IT...I LOVE IT...I DON'T KNOW...". These are the reflections of Max Frisch, writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing until his death at the age of eighty, the man whom many see as Switzerland's greatest …
Collected Poems
Inbunden, 2014
216 kr
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Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, defying convention, and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left school at the age of fourteen to become a manual …
Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
Inbunden, 2014
216 kr
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"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs," recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption has yet to be finalized. When she finally moves into her new home with her new family, she …
