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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.

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S. Corinna Bille, Théoda: «Théoda», published in 1944, was the first novel of S. Corinna Bille (1912-1979). The daughter of the painter Edmond Bille had been living for a year with her future husband, Maurice Chappaz, following the break-up of her first marriage. In 1939, she had published «Printemps», a collection of poetry. «Théoda» is a sudden leap, both in style and subject matter, into the universe of this author from the Valais region of Switzerland. The novel makes use of short, vibrant phrases to describe the archaic lifestyle of farmers in the canton of Valais. Following the rhythm of the seasons and catholic festivals, they travel from one village to the next, journeying continually between Pragnin in the valley and the high-altitude Terroua. The Romyr family’s two eldest sons each stray from the well-trodden path in their own way. Barnabé marries a «foreigner», the lovely and proud Théoda, who comes from a distant village. Léonard joins the foreign legion and leaves for Algeria then Indochina. Watched by the rural community, the love-affair of an illegitimate couple emerges. The lovers Théoda and Rémi murder Barnabé and are executed in the canton’s capital. The narrative, based on historical facts, is told by Marceline, one of Barnabé’s younger sisters and by Léonard, who was only seven at the time of the fateful marriage. Corinna Bille uses the innocent and observant eyes of the child and the perspective of the young girl on her fascinating and disturbing sister-in-law to create two female characters of rare substance. (Ruth Gantert, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

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José-Flore Tappy, Pierre à feu: The violence and clarity struck by «Pierre à feu» on the first reading lent the name to this collection published in 1995. The short and sober poems are divided into two chapters, «Le Chemin» and «Herbe et fumée,» which contrast and complete each other. The poems are also often arranged around a metaphor that acts as an opposing force to the density of the verse, blowing the poems apart. In the poems, Tappy places her own life in the pull of this relation between centrifugal and centripetal movements: « Fidèle et fugitive telle je suis je passe quenouille tournée par les vents dans les fils innombrables du temps » (Loyal and fugitive as I am I move, a spindle turned by the wind in the innumerable threads of time) In an elementary, inhuman world, respite from the violence of which is only to be found in words, someone is walking, fighting and loving, and trying to create enough light not to get lost forever, to resist the impetuous torrent of it all. Although Tappy’s poetry is unsettling, itinerant and full of pain, she infuses her words with a salutary energy, a desire for love and beauty that does not seek to dodge the struggle and peculiarity of the human condition. Reading «Pierre à feu» has an invigorating effect on the consciousness and sharpens the senses. (Françoise Delorme, transl. by Andrea Mason Willfratt)

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Max Frisch, Homo Faber: «Homo Faber» is probably Max Frisch’s most renown novel, it was published in 1957. Subjectively, it conveys a psychogram of the Swiss Engineer Walter Faber who at first appears egotistic and technophile as he leaves his pregnant girlfriend in 1936 for a job in Bagdad. As a half-Jew she is forced to flee and, against their agreement, decides not to have an abortion. 20 years later, Faber meets young Elisabeth on a boat. They fall in love and travel through Europe together until Elisabeth is bitten by a snake in Greece, falls and succumbs to her injuries. Faber’s «report», as he entitles the genre in the book’s subheading, is written in retrospect. It represents the attempt to understand the accident as well as the incestuous relation with his daughter, leaning towards coincidence rather than fate. Not only does his technological world become more and more unreliable, his rational worldview is crumbling as well. Moreover, his elliptic linguistic style shows signs of guilt and suppression. Altogether the text appears so strongly designed – even for an engineer – with its shifting narrative time of interlaced flashbacks and foresights, with its rigid oppositions, and above all with its dense fabric of symbolic and mythological references that the report turns against his own narrator. (Marc Caduff, transl. by Anja Hälg)

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Daniel Frick: Globi bei der Müllabfuhr. Globi Verlag.

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