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Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Birth date: May 23, 1908
Died: November 15, 1942
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Bloodorange
Bloodorange rated it 9 years ago
Na okolicznych wzgórzach widać małe meczety o spiczastych minaretach, również otoczone cyprysami. Sziraz, podobnie jak Florencja w Toskanii, jest pogodne i sprzyjające sztukom, pełne ogrodów i fontann. Dzień spędziliśmy w wielkim ogrodzie naszego przyjaciela, Anglika. Dużo myśleliśmy o Europie. Bo c...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 9 years ago
Winter in Vorderasien is Schwarzenbach's account of her first trip to Turkey, Syria, the Lebanon, and Palestine. She made the trip in 1933 and the impressions she gained would not only serve as inspiration for a collection of short stories (Bei diesem Regen) but would also determine her fate as a tr...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 9 years ago
Diese Sammlung beinhalted zwar keine von Schwarzenbach's Reiseberichten, aber dafuer ihr belletristisches Gesamtwerk, inkusive der posthum veroeffentlichten Skizze "Eine Frau zu sehen", mit der Schwarzenbach der literarischen Welt wohl Jahrzehnte voraus war. 5* schon allein fuer "Bei diesem Regen", ...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 9 years ago
Bernhard is a student who has a talent for playing the piano and making friends with similarly artistically minded youths in the late 1920s. When school finishes, he persuades his family that he should receive musical training in Paris. With the move from Germany to Paris, however, begins Bernhard's...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 10 years ago
"Die Nacht war lang. Das Zimmer ein Schiff, verloren im Weltall." [Tr.: "The night was long. The room was a ship, lost in outer space."] Yes, this quote absolutely bowled me over. I loved the imagery in this book - even when she described the characters' most desperate moments, AS managed to dra...
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