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Urs Widmer
IN
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Originally presented as the author’s thesis, Bern, 1973.
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Told with Urs Widmer’s signature humor, genius, and lively imagination, Mr Adamson is a superb story and a spellbinding book. With its vitality and zest for life, it manages to…
Urs Widmer,Donal Mclaughlin
A novel, in which the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents…
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The day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that…
My Mother’s Lover is the story of a lifelong and unspoken love for a man–recorded by the woman’s son who begins the novel on the day his mother’s lover dies.
In My Father’s Book, a son pieces together the fragments of his parents’ stories.
On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest collects Widmer’s lectures on poetics delivered at the University of Frankfurt VI.
Julia Balogh
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Universitat Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Sozialisationstheorie Pierre Bourdieus, der er sein Leben und Werk gewidmet…
Jerome Schwyzer
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1.5, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In Anbetracht der andauernden weltweiten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise, scheint das Werk…
