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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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Lyrische Novelle
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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R338
Discovery Miles 3 380
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Das glĆ¼ckliche 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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R305
Discovery Miles 3 050
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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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Lyric Novella (Hardcover)
Lucy Renner Jones; Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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R358
R272
Discovery Miles 2 720
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach 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. Schwarzenbach's clear,
psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative
narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. In fact,
she 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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