In Case of Loss - Softcover

Seiler, Lutz

 
9781913505783: In Case of Loss
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1913505782 ISBN 13: 9781913505783
Verlag: And Other Stories, 2024

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In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler's non-fiction from the last twenty-five years, revealing essays that are different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Seiler's anecdotal and associative pieces throw fascinating light on literature and his background, not least the environmental and human catastrophe of the Soviet-era mining in the community he grew up in, ‘the tired villages . . . beneath which lay the ore, uranium’. Other essays focus on poetry, including his awakening to it while waiting in an army truck on his military service, and there are pieces on German poets such as Ernst Meister, Jürgen Becker and Peter Huchel. The title essay describes the poet Huchel's notebook, a kind of dictionary of images organised by mood and location.
Providing a perfect entry to Seiler's work, In Case of Loss sees one of Europe's most original writers speak with openness and insight in essays full of a poet's attention to the importance of often overlooked objects and lives.

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Poet, novelist and essayist Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst, near Berlin, and in Stockholm. His writing has won many prizes, including the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, the Ingeborg Bachmann and the German Book Prize, and been translated into twenty-five languages. For the body of his work, he was awarded the 2023 Georg Büchner Prize, whose past recipients include Max Frisch, Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.

Martyn Crucefix has published six full collections of poetry. His translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies was shortlisted for the 2007 Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation, while These Numbered Days, translations of poems by Peter Huchel, won the 2020 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize. His new collection Between A Drowning Man was published in 2023.

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Verlag
And Other Stories
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1913505782
ISBN 13 
9781913505783
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
182
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