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Karina Rey
Bücher Lüthy
St. Gallen
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07.30 PM
Der Absprung
Maria Stepanova
Literaturhaus Zürich
Zürich
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Trotz allem.
Gardi Hutter
Stadttheater Langenthal
Langenthal
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27-02-2025
Poetologischer Input. Leif Randt spricht über sein…
Leif Randt
Universität Fribourg
Fribourg
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Mitteilung 2024-07-12 [«Topshelf Night» Schloss Lenzburg]: Eine Sommernacht zwischen Lichtern und Stars, die ganz der Literatur und dem Lesen gehört! Und Bookstagram! Und BookTok!
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Mitteilung 2024-06-26 [Bachmann-Preis]: Statt Fussball 3 Tage lang Literatur gucken: Heute starten die diesjährigen «Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur».
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Mitteilung 2024-06-24 [Pro Litteris Preis 24 – Sasha Filipenko & Maud Mabillard]: ProLitteris verleiht zwei Preise in der Sparte Literatur an Sasha Filipenko und Maud Mabillard.
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Mitteilung 2024-06-21 [Literaturfestival Zürich]: Nicht verpassen: Vom 8.-14.7.24 steigt wieder das Literaturfestival Zürich.
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Mitteilung 2024-06-17 [Stiftung Lydia Eymann Literaturstipendium]: Bis 30.6.24 bewerben fürs Stipendium der Lydia Eymann Stiftung.
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Mitteilung 2024-06-11 [Markus Bundi «Wilde Tiere»]: Beat Mazenauer bespricht «Wilde Tiere» von Markus Bundi für Viceversaliteratur.ch.
Reading tip
David Collin, Les Cercles mémoriaux: Who is this man stranded in the Gobi Desert? What brought him here? The 'Castaway' is found by a caravan, and it soon becomes clear that he has forgotten everything. He knows nothing about his past and has no idea why or how he has come to this rather forbidding place. With the help of a shaman he tries to reconstruct his past. He wants to understand who he is and what his previous life was like. How did he become the man he is now? To do this, he has to travel halfway across the world. Small clues and scraps of memory gradually piece themselves together and help him regain his identity, and with it his name: Elias Alejandro Esquivel. Shen-li, a Chinese photographer, is his companion on this journey. First she takes him to an archaeological excavation site. Later they travel together through Ulan Bator and Shanghai and then all the way to Buenos Aires. Along the way, Shen-li continues to take photos. The captions to the photos become part of the novel – but without the images.
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Ralph Dutli, Soutines letzte Fahrt: On August 6th, 1943, Chaim Soutine is travelling from Chinon, on the river Loire, to occupied Paris, hidden in a hearse. Soutine, the Jewish-Belarussian painter and contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani and Picasso, is gravely ill. He urgently needs an operation for a stomach ulcer, but the journey is taking much too long, 24 hours, because of the need to make detours round German army checkpoints.
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Nicolas Bouvier, The scorpion-fish: In Nicolas Bouvier’s oeuvre the scorpion fish takes on a central role. Bouvier remembers his 1956 sojourn in Sri Lanka during which he succumbed to illness, depression, bad dreams and the pain of love. We encounter the author in the town of Galle in a cheap room, increasingly trapped in himself. He is ill and oscillates between fascination for and desperation about his host country. Memories of the mild India he came from before makes this hotbed of lethargy all the more unbearable. His observations are blurred and sharp at the same time. Pressed by the activity of the omnipresent insects who seem to take up all his attention his report is pulled into the maelstrom of images and associations. Moreover, his language is fraying and thereby reflecting the madness. It is in this aspect that we find the fascination for this capturing report of an «anti-journey». Bouvier wrote the book in 1981 in retrospect, based on memories, notes and a nocturnal dictation, the «zone de silence». He himself called the text «surécrit», over charged and over orchestrated. But it is in that exact way that he renders the feverish agitation and the existential abysses linguistically palpable. (Beat Mazenauer, transl. by Anja Hälg)
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