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Seedtime III Notebooks, 1995-1998
ISBN: HB: 9780857428486, Seagull Books, May 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Writers' notebooks sometimes prove more revelatory than diaries or intimate journals. At first they might appear to be rag-and-bone shops of ideas, insights, hesitations, doubts, and records of things seen, heard, read, dreamt. But eventually they co...
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Collected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780857428370, ISBN: HB: 9780857421715, Seagull Books, March 2021
164 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and left s...
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Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons
ISBN: PB: 9780857428363, ISBN: HB: 9780857421845, Seagull Books, March 2021
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs", recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel 'The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons'. She's a young girl, an immigrant to Switzerland whose adoption is yet to be finalized. When she finally moves...
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Patches of Sunlight, Or of Shadow Safeguarded Notes, 1952-2005
ISBN: HB: 9780857427915, Seagull Books, December 2020
342 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
Philippe Jaccottet's newest work follows in some ways the approach of "Seedtime", his recent two-volume collection of notebooks. Similarly comprising on-the-spot jottings, philosophical reflections, literary commentary, dream narratives and sundry "n...
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"Air of Solitude" Followed by "Requiem"
ISBN: HB: 9780857426871, Seagull Books, February 2020
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Gustave Roud, perhaps the most beloved poet of Swiss Romandy, is widely considered the founder of modern francophone Swiss literature, along with Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Roud lived at his grandfather's farm in Carrouge, Canton Vaud, for his entire l...
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Soutine's Last Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780857426925, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer,...
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Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780857425980, Seagull Books, September 2019
312 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be in short supply. However, the lyrical and philosophi...
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Answer from the Silence A Story from the Mountains
ISBN: PB: 9780857427106, ISBN: HB: 9781906497927, Seagull Books, September 2019
136 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the empti...
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Mr Adamson
ISBN: PB: 9780857427168, ISBN: HB: 9780857422323, Seagull Books, September 2019
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, 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 he is recording the story of his adventur...
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Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780857427113, ISBN: HB: 9780857421685, Seagull Books, September 2019
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions,...
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