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Told with Urs Widmer's signature humor, genius, and lively imagination, Mr Adamson is a superb story and a spellbinding book. With its vitality and ze

Following Arnold Odermatt’s Karambolage, On Duty and Off Duty, all published by Steidl, Let’s call it a day presents more rediscovered masterpieces by

Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume eno

This book provides an account of the extraordinary adventure of Switzerland, caught by the hurricane called World War II and explores the myths surrou

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: 1,3, University of Lincoln (Department o

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Basel, language: Engli

Whereas the discovery by Europeans of the continents of our earth has been the subject of countless studies and its protagonists (such as Columbus) ar

Schopenhauer was the first major Western philosopher with a deep interest in Asian philosophies and religions. His favorite book was a Latin version o

Whereas the discovery by Europeans of the continents of our earth has been the subject of countless studies and its protagonists (such as Columbus) ar

Modern Orientalism was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religio

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 int

Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does something surprising--th

It is little known that Richard Wagner was among the very first Westerners to appreciate Buddhism and that he was the first major European artist to b

Despite the voluminous research published about World War II, there has remained a surprising gap; there is little, perhaps nothing, on the role of Sw

In the wildly entertaining novel The Blue Soda Siphon, the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the

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. Si

Es war eine Mischung aus Idealismus und Leichtsinn, die den 23-jährigen Studenten Jürg Judin 1986 dazu verleitete, im damaligen Problemquartier Seefel