And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman
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To coincide with the 90th birthday of the author, this new, expanded edition of this work incorporates a wealth of archival material. The original texts are here...
To coincide with the 90th birthday of the author, this new, expanded edition of this work incorporates a wealth of archival material. The original texts are here accompanied by surprising variants and entirely unknown stories. A good opportunity to rediscover one of the classic works of short prose in 20th-century German literature.
»What Peter Bichsel is able to extract from boredom makes you think and is anything but boring, it is astounding, amusing ‒ and always encouraging.« Roman Steiner, Sindelfinger Zeitung
»What Peter Bichsel is able to extract from boredom makes you think and is anything but boring, it is astounding, amusing ‒ and always encouraging.« Roman Steiner,...
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Peter Bichsel
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Beautiful Sister Boredom
Something Has to Be Done About the Banana Trees in Winter
The Donkey, Too, Has a Soul
The first of Peter Bichsel‘s P.S.-columns, which have become an institution sui generis over the course of four decades, was published in Zurich’s Tages-Anzeiger in 1975. But even in the 1960s, the author had been writing numerous journalistic contributions and columns on questions of the times, that accompanied his early successes as a literary storyteller. Beat...
Talking About the Weather
Talking about the weather, about anything, that is. Being understood, even if it’s just by someone who doesn’t even speak my language. Peter Bichsel’s columns can strike up a conversation with...
Uzbekistan (Turon-Iqbol)
Cherubin Hammer and Cherubin Hammer
Peter Bichsel tells the story of Cherubin Hammer, who thinks that he is a writer and is trying, unsucessfully, to live the biography of a writer. He confronts him with a second Cherubin hammer, a...
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You Couldn’t Take a Stand Against Our Postman
Whether he talks about the suffering of professional footballers or about a strange journey on a train through Egypt, whether he chats about life in New York or an old postman who delivered his...
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On the City of Paris
»I believe«, says Peter Bichsel, »that the importance of literature lies not in conveying content but in maintaining storytelling. Because people need stories to survive. They...
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The Buzzard
Buzzard is a rich, homesick native of Solothurn with whose money Solothurn’s historic city centre is »beautified« (and made unlivable). Buzzard, however, is also the name of the...
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The Reader. The Story
Peter Bichsel‘s five lectures from 1982 are not actually lectures but stories about lectures. They are refreshingly unpretentious and always exceedingly subtle – just as his works of fiction. At...
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Children’s Stories
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The Seasons
This the story of a house, an ordinary residential house, and the people and objects in it. The author raises the inventory and he invents a character, who is called Kieninger. Kieninger rents a...
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