Annemarie Schwarzenbach or Europe’s Evils
Publisher
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Éditions Payot
Parution date
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2004
EAN
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9782228898744
Description
Thomas Mann called her the ' "ravaged angel", Roger Martin du Gard, French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature, thanked her "for walking the earth with the beautiful face of an inconsolable angel”. Carson McCullers dedicated to her novel Reflections in a Golden Eye to her, reading in her features "an indescribable expression of pain". Ella Maillart, who traveled with her to Afghanistan, presented her as a "noble being of captivating charm". Writer, journalist, photographer and archeologist, descended from a family of wealthy industrialists from Zurich, Annemarie Scwarzenbach (1908-1942) never stopped trying to flee a background that was at odds with her personal aspirations. From Russia to Persia, the United States to the Congo, her life was admittedly marked by morphine addiction, confinement, detox “cures”, unhappy homosexual alliances, her tumultuous friendship with Klaus and Erika, novelist Thomas Mann’s openly gay oldest siblings, as well as her relentless battle against Nazism by way of her writings. The tragic and fatally glamorous heroine of Ella Maillart’s most celebrated novel, The Cruel Way, died prematurely in 1942 after a bicycle accident during her final attempt to kick her drug habit.
Author
Dominique-Laure Miermont : Dominique-Laure Miermont is a world-renowned expert on Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and is responsible for having translated all of her written works into French.
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