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All the Roads Are Open - The Afghan Journey by Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Isabel Fargo Cole (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan j ...Show more
Death in Persia by Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Lucy Renner Jones (Translator)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jo ...Show more
Eulogy for the Living - Taking Flight by Christa Wolf; Katy Derbyshire (Translator); Gerhard Wolf (Afterword by)
Category: Culture | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
A fragmentary work that stands as a testament to Wolf's skill as a thinker, storyteller, and memorializer of humanity's greatest struggles. Christa Wolf tried for years to find a way to write about her childhood in Nazi Germany. In her 1976 book Patterns of Childhood, she explained why it was so diffic ...Show more
Lyric Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Lucy Renner Jones (Translator); Lucy Jones (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
Schwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler--has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the re ...Show more
Zurich Transit by Max Frisch
Category: Performing Arts | Series: The\Seagull Library of German Literature Ser.
This screenplay by Swiss playwright and novelist Max Frisch was developed from an episode in his 1964 novel Gantenbein, or A Wilderness of Mirrors. At the center of both works is Theo Ehrismann, a man who cannot seem to change his life no matter how many times he resolves to do so. Chance comes to Theo ...Show more
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