In Case of Loss
Published on 28. November 2023
224 pages
978-1-913505-79-0 (ISBN)
Description
In Case of Loss reveals Seiler's essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry. Beautifully anecdotal and associative, they throw a light on literature and his East German background, including the Soviet-era mining community he grew up in, and are full of insight, humanity and an attention to overlooked objects and lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
File size
2,01 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-913505-79-0 (9781913505790)
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright Page
- Under the Pine Vault
- Huchel and the Dummy Bridge
- 'The post-war era never ends': On Jürgen Becker
- In Case of Loss
- Aurora: An attempt to answer the question 'Where is the poem going today?'
- Illegal Exit, Gera (East)
- The Tired Territory
- Babelsberg: Brief Thoughts on Ernst Meister
- In the Anchor Jar
- Sundays I Thought of God
- The Flute Player
- The Invocation
- In the Movie Bunker
- The Soggy Hems of His Soviet Trousers: Image as a way into the narration of the past
- Notes
- Editorial Note
- Note to the Reader
- Subscribers
