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Mitteilung 2024-03-25 [Regula Bigler «Lautlos» – Viceversaliteratur.ch]: Ladina Caduff bespricht Regula Biglers «Die Lautlosen» für Viceversaliteratur.ch.

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Mitteilung 2024-03-21 [Buchmesse Leipzig: «Die Unabhängigen»]: Ab heute zeigen sich «Die Unabhängigen» an der Leipziger Buchmesse – wer nicht dabei sein kann, kann streamen.

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Mitteilung 2024-03-18 [Eventi letterari Monte Verità 2024]: Vom 21.-24.03.24 finden wieder Eventi letterari Monte Verità statt.

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Mitteilung 2024-03-15 [Ludwig Hohl «Die vorletzte Station»]: Jens-Peter Kusch bespricht Ludwig Hohls «Die vorletzte Station» für Viceversaliteratur.ch.

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Mitteilung 2024-03-11 [A*dS verteidigt Übersetzer*innen]: Der A*dS verteidigt den Beruf der Übersetzenden.

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Mitteilung 2024-03-08 [SIKJM-Preis-Shortlist]: Endlich da: Die Shortlist des Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendbuchpreises 2024.

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Pierre-Alain Tâche, L'Etat des lieux: The triptych «l'Etat des lieux» occupies a central place in the work of Pierre-Alain Tâche, which spans a period of more than fifty years. In an inventory of places, landscapes and reminiscences about literature, art and mythology, the poet rekindles a sense for the immediacy of life, between disillusionment, hidden irony and light-heartedness, even if that immediacy is only a dream. Our presence in the world becomes more concrete in contact with works far removed from it, in that they impose a limit on the duration of our fleeting absence. In a rhythm that is at once languid and tense, the poems of Pierre-Alain Tâche, which are often interspersed with short sections of prose, make time slow down. None of the books really form the centre of the triptych, nor are they the beginning or end. Any possible chronology is disrupted by a thousand different readings, forming a spiral that expands in all directions rather than a narrative of the past. In spite of the continual failure that eats away at any unshakeable adherence to the world, the poet continues to write, to «conserve the deep-rooted song» by «biding one’s time», all the while wondering at the impenetrability of the world. (Françoise Delorme, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

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Marius Daniel Popescu, Les Couleurs de l’hirondelle: The path leads from the morgue to the church, and it is long. The narrator of 'Les Couleurs de l'hirondelle' has returned to faraway Romania because his mother has died. Now she is to be buried, but first there are a number of bureaucratic hurdles. The route to the church, where the funeral is to take place, is transformed into a complex, winding path through the narrator's life so far. We hear not only about his newly-deceased mother and his childhood in this (unnamed) country, but also about his daughter. She is eleven years old, born in Lausanne, in the narrator's new homeland, and so the place she calls home is completely different from the one he grew up in. She is entering the unknown world of puberty and beginning to cast a critical eye on her father.

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Tommaso Soldini, Uno per uno: They grew up in Switzerland in the 1980s and 1990s, in a country that was flourishing; but even so, the characters in One by One live a life on the edge of society, a life full of unanswered questions. They all have their own worries, their little obsessions, their lives are all out of joint. They’re unhappy, or at least they’re quite convinced they’re unlucky.

New releases

Stadtarchiv St.Gallen (Hrsg.): Konquistadoren und Sklavenhändler vom Bodensee. FormatOst.

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Iwan Baan: Rome - Las Vegas. Bread and Circuses. Lars Müller Publishers.

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