Death in Persia (The Seagull Library of German Literature)

Schwarzenbach, Annemarie

ISBN 10: 0857428233 / ISBN 13: 9780857428233

Verlag: Seagull Books, 2021

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.119GK

Inhaltsangabe:

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 Jalé, 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908&;42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer, who worked periodically as an archaeologist. Lucy Renner Jones is a freelance translator living in Berlin; she translated Schwarzenbach&;s LyricNovella, also published by Seagull Books.

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Titel: Death in Persia (The Seagull Library of ...
Verlag: Seagull Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good