Inhalt: In this companion to Urs Widmer's novel "My Mother's Lover", the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents' stories. Since the age of 12, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is lost soon after his death, his son resolves to rewrite it. Here, we get to know Karl's friends - a collection of anti-fascist painters and architects known as Group 33. We learn of the early years of Karl's marriage and follow his military service as the Swiss fear a German invasion during the Second World War, his political activity for the Communist Party and his brief career as a teacher. We are told of Karl's literary translations of his favourite French books, and, most important, the eerie and ever-present coffins outside the houses in the home village of Karl's father, one reserved for each individual from the day he or she is born. Widmer brilliantly combines family history and historical events to tell the story of a man more at home in the world of the imagination than in the real world, a father who grows on the reader just as he grows on his son.Urs Widmer is co-founder of Verlag der Autoren, an author-owned publishing house focusing on texts related to the performing arts. His other works include My Mother's Lover, also published by Seagull Books. He lives and works in Zürich. Umfang: 181 S. ISBN: 978-0-85742-071-8
Inhalt: It's Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. By the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in the country, but she is penniless. And most important of all, no one knows of her love for him; it is a secret he took to his grave. Here begins Urs Widmer's novel "My Mother's Lover". Based on a real-life affair, "My Mother's Lover" - the first part of a much-loved trilogy - is the story of a lifelong and unspoken love for a man - recorded by the woman's son, who begins this novel on the day his mother's lover dies. Set against the backdrop of the Depression and World War II, it is a story of sacrifice and betrayal, passionate devotion and inevitable suffering. Yet in Widmer's hands, it is always entertaining and surprisingly comic - a unique kind of fairy tale.Urs Widmer is a playwright, essayist and short-story writer, and has also translated works from Eniglish and French including Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and dramatic works by Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Labiche. He is co-founder of Verlag der Autoren, an author-owned publishing house focusing on texts related to the performing arts. Widmer lives and works in Zürich. Umfang: 135 S. ISBN: 978-0-85742-133-3
Inhalt: In the wildly entertaining novel The Blue Soda Siphon, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was back then turns up in the present of the early 1990s, during the Gulf War, where he meets himself as an older man, and meets his adult self's young daughter. These head-scratching, hilarious time shifts happen when both the adult narrator and his childhood self go to the cinema and see films, the subjects of which echo their own lives. Translated into English for the first time by Donal McLaughlin, this novel, in which the eponymous blue soda siphon bottle is a recurring symbol, is a magnificent example of Urs Widmer's characteristic humor, literary genius, and unparalleled imagination.Urs Widmer is co-founder of Verlag der Autoren, an author-owned publishing house focusing on texts related to the performing arts. His other works include My Mother's Lover and Mr Adamson also published by Seagull Books. He lives and works in Zürich. Umfang: 113 S. ISBN: 978-0-85742-257-6
Inhalt: Wirklich berühmt wurde Urs Widmer mit seinem Spätwerk: ?Der blaue Siphon?, ?Der Geliebte der Mutter? oder ?Das Buch des Vaters? finden auch heute noch viele begeisterte Leserinnen und Leser. Aber da ist viel mehr, wie beim berühmten Eisberg schlummert auch beim Zeitzeugen Urs Widmer vieles unter der Oberfläche und wartet auf Erkundung. Seine frühen Erzählungen sind der beste Anfang: anarchische Freude daran, das Gebälk der Literatur knarzen zu lassen. Umfang: 336 S. ISBN: 978-3-257-61492-3
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