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In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella
Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan.
The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled
the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they
considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in
All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of
Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer
a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the "fateful
laws known as progress," a remote yet "sensitive nerve centre of
world politics" caught amid great powers in upheaval. In her
writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate beauty of
landscapes both internal and external, reflecting on the longings
and loneliness of travel as well as its grace. Maillart's account
of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a classic of travel
literature, and, now available for the first time in English,
Schwarzenbach's memoir rounds out the story of the adventure.
Praise for the German Edition "Above all, [Schwarzenbach's]
discovery of the Orient was a personal one. But the author never
loses sight of the historical and social context. . . . She shows
no trace of colonialist arrogance. In fact, the pieces also reflect
the experience of crisis, the loss of confidence which, in that
decade, seized the long-arrogant culture of the West."-Suddeutsche
Zeitung
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Death in Persia (Paperback)
Annemarie Schwarzenbach; Translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Lucy Jones
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R299
Discovery Miles 2 990
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Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie
Schwarzenbach-journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict,
and antifascist novelist-has become a European cult figure among
free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time
and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is
a collage of the political and the private, documenting
Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four
trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on
individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her
reactions to accusations from her friends of having deserted Europe
and the antifascist cause for Tehran, Schwarzenbach recorded a
great deal about daily life in Persia, and, most personally, her
ill-fated love affair with Jale, the daughter of the Turkish
ambassador. Chronologically preceding Schwarzenbach's exquisite
travelogue All the Roads are Open, an account of her automobile
journey from Geneva to Afghanistan in 1939, Death in Persia is the
enthralling diary of an astute observer standing at the crossroads
of major events in history and a gorgeous new addition to Annemarie
Schwarzenbach's growing English-language oeuvre.
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Lyrische Novelle
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
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Das glĂźckliche Tal
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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Lyric Novella (Paperback)
Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Lucy Renner Jones, Lucy Jones
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R297
Discovery Miles 2 970
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Schwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this
novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to
her own life. Annemarie Schwarzenbach-journalist, novelist,
antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler-has become a European cult
figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works
in the late 1980s. Lyric Novella is her story of a young man's
obsession with a Berlin variete actress. Despite having his future
career mapped out for him in the diplomatic service, the young man
begins to question all his family values under Sibylle's spell. His
family, future, and social standing become irrelevant when set
against his overriding compulsion to pick her up every night from
the theater so they can go for a drive. Bringing the story back to
her own life, Schwarzenbach admitted after publication that her
hero was in fact a young woman, not a man, leaving little doubt
that Lyric Novella is a literary tale of lesbian love during
socially and politically turbulent times.
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