Lyric Novella

By
Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Author) Lucy Renner Jones (Author) Lucy Jones (Author)  

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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.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. She is the author of the poem Aus Tetouan, Der Krater der Tiere, Das Wunder des Baumes. Lucy Renner Jones is a freelance translator living in Berlin.
  • Contributor: Annemarie Schwarzenbach
  • Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781803090375
  • Number of Pages: 138
  • Packaged Dimensions: 5x8x1mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Release Date: 2022-08-05
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. She is the author of the poem Aus Tetouan, Der Krater der Tiere, Das Wunder des Baumes. Lucy Renner Jones is a freelance translator living in Berlin.

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