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...
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...
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", ...
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...
"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...
"I want no relapses to the days when I always needed Eri: to get away from my mom, to get a divorce from Claude, to have a focus in life, to overcome the morphine, to heal the leg, to establish Sils, to legitimize me to myself, ... I want to be useful, mature, reliable, to be a friend to Eri instead...
"The gist of our dialogue had been that if she was mad I was mad too: I was unwilling to let myself be strangled by that prudent life that everybody advocated. I also was convinced that— whether we succeed or not— it is our job to search for the significance of life." The Cruel Way and Alle Wege ...
This is a collection of short stories that were written around a common theme: people venturing to new lands, mostly the Middle East - being as an adventure, for work, or in exile - and the disillusion and heartbreak that this may bring with it. As you can see from the star rating, this collection...
Having read several of Annemarie Schwarzenbach's stories in the last few weeks, I must admit that I am finding it difficult to write reviews for them. Nothing I can jot down in these lines can do justice the experience I have had reading what I can only describe as the manifestations of a tormented ...
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