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Blumenberg

Novel
Suhrkamp | Insel
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Blumenberg / Blumenberg
Novel
Georg-Büchner-Prize 2013

Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2011
Respected philosopher Hans Blumenberg is leading a quiet, unassuming life of the mind in Münster in the early eighties, when one night he discovers a lion in his study. A student prank? A metaphysical apparition? A prestigious award of some sort?

Only Blumenberg can see the animal, and yet he is not alone in falling under its spell. Four of his students are also affected, including the ardent Blumenbergian Gerhard Optatus Baur and the delicate, highly-strung Isa who falls in love with...
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Respected philosopher Hans Blumenberg is leading a quiet, unassuming life of the mind in Münster in the early eighties, when one night he discovers a lion in his study. A student prank? A metaphysical apparition? A prestigious award of some sort?

Only Blumenberg can see the animal, and yet he is not alone in falling under its spell. Four of his students are also affected, including the ardent Blumenbergian Gerhard Optatus Baur and the delicate, highly-strung Isa who falls in love with her professor.


Following the success of her novel Apostoloff, which received numerous awards including the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, Sibylle Lewitscharoff now turns her attention to a truly unusual character: an endearing and agreeable thinker tackling the big questions of the human condition, struck by a miracle in the form of a mysterious lion. A scintillating, affecting novel, which was longlisted for the 2011 German Book Prize even before it was published.

»Dreamy and bewitching [...] Lewitscharoff definitely goes her own ways; for those willing to follow, it's a heady, interesting experience.« Complete Review

»Filled with a likable cast of characters pulled along by the flowing, poetic prose.« World Literature Today

»An acclaimed German novelist, Lewitscharoff has authored several award-winning volumes [...] Within this context, her novel about Blumenberg reads as an exploration of both his thought and Lewitscharoff’s own attraction to metaphor and magical realism.« Boston Review
 

»Not a word is wasted by Lewitscharoff in this superbly written novel where everything is significant. Themes and style alike contribute to the overall effect: a clever blend of poetry, philosophy and comedy by an author who is a master of her craft. […] A highly original work.« New Books in German

»Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s Blumenberg is an absolute joy to read.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»[…] one of the most capable prose stylists of contemporary German literature […].« Deutschlandradio Kultur

»A truly exceptional book.« Der Spiegel

»Sibylle Lewitscharoff writes with a linguistic force that is unparalleled in German literature « Paul Jandl, Neue Züricher Zeitung

»Just as the grandiose stylist Blumenberg embraced […] literature, insisting on its truth value as a source of greater self-knowledge, so too does Lewitscharoff embrace philosophy with all her wit and linguistic prowess.« Tagesspiegel

»Sibylle Lewitscharoff breathes new life into that classic combination of romance and philosophy, with scintillating results.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s marvellous homage to the philosopher Hans Blumenberg.« Frankfurter Rundschau

»Blumenberg confirms Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s status as the most intellectually courageous writer of her generation. […] Highly intellectual […] but also highly entertaining.« Die Welt

»Storytelling at its very best« Literarische Welt

»Dreamy and bewitching [...] Lewitscharoff definitely goes her own ways; for those willing to follow, it's a heady, interesting experience.« Complete Review

»Filled with a likable cast of characters pulled along by the flowing, poetic prose.« World Literature Today

»An acclaimed German novelist, Lewitscharoff has authored several award-winning volumes [...] Within this context, her novel about Blumenberg reads as an...
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Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in Stuttgart in 1954 to a Bulgarian father and a German mother, read religious studies in Berlin, where she lived after staying in Buenos Aires and Paris for extended periods. She was awarded numerous prizes for her literary work. Lewitscharoff died on May 14, 2023 in Berlin.

 

Sibylle Lewitscharoff, born in Stuttgart in 1954 to a Bulgarian father and a German mother, read religious studies in Berlin, where she lived after...

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Arabic world rights (Fawasel)

Abraham Meets Ibrahim
Year of Publication: 2018
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A highly dramatic scene: a father leans over the defenceless boy, the knife flashing in his hand – when, at the last moment, an angel orders him to sacrifice a ram instead of his own son. The...

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Year of Publication: 2016
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France (Piranha)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Audiobuch); German Entire Radio Reading (NDR)

Killmousky
Year of Publication: 2014
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Rights sold to:

France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Audiobook (Random House Audio)

Pong redivivus
Year of Publication: 2013
Eloquence, humour and obstinacy: Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s Pong lives!


Pong lives! At the end of Sibylle Lewitscharoff’s novel Pong, the loveable, crazy protagonist had thrown himself with resounding hurrah to the moon, arms open wide – and contrary to the reader’s apprehensions, he has survived this bold leap from the roof. Now, as he lies in hospital, he has all...
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Year of Publication: 2009
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Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Hidalgo), Chinese simplex rights (Beijing Qingyan), Chinese complex rights (China Times Publishing), France (Piranha), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore), Hungary (Bookart), Bulgaria (Atlantis), Republic of Moldova / Romanian Rights (Cartier), Estonia (Atlex), Serbia (Presing Izdavastvo), Macedonia (Ars Lamina)

Domestic Rights Sales: German Book Club (Bertelsmann), German Audiobook (Der Hörverlag)


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