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All the Roads Are Open
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the "fateful laws known as progress," a remote yet "sensitive nerve centre of world politics" caught amid great powers in upheaval. In her writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate be...
Death in Persia
Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations from her friends of having deserted Europe and the antifascist cause for Tehran, Schwarzenbach record...
On Civic Friendship
Women have performed the vast majority of often unpaid friendship labor for centuries. Embodying the freedom, equality, and ideals of the Constitution, civic friendship emerges as a necessary condition for genuine justice. Through a critical examination of social and political relationships from ancient times to today, Sibyl Schwarzenbach develops a truly innovative, feminist theory of the democratic state. Beginning with an analysis of Aristotle's notion of political friendship, Schwarzenbach brings the philosopher's insights to bear on the social and political requirements of the modern state. She elaborates a conception of civic friendship that, with its ethical reproductive praxis, funct...
Lyric Novella
Schwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler--has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the late 1980s. Lyric Novella is her story of a young man's obsession with a Berlin variété actress. Despite having his future career mapped out for him in the diplomatic service, the young man begins to question all his family values under Sibylle's spell. His family, future, and social standing become irrelevant when set against his overriding compulsion to pick her up every night from the theater so they can go for a drive. Bringing the story back to her own life, Schwarzenbach admitted after publication that her hero was in fact a young woman, not a man, leaving little doubt that Lyric Novella is a literary tale of lesbian love during socially and politically turbulent times.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Die Schweizer Autorin Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942) hat in den letzten Jahren eine lebhafte Resonanz erfahren – ihr vielfältiges Werk ist literaturwissenschaftlich aber noch zu erschließen. Der vorliegende Band bietet Analysen zu ihrem literarischen und journalistischen Œuvre, so zu ihren Romanen, Erzählungen, Reiseberichten und Feuilletons. Zwei Beiträge widmen sich dem vieldiskutierten Verhältnis zu ihrer Mutter und ihrer Darstellung in dem Afghanistan-Film Reise nach Kafiristan (2001). Außerdem präsentiert der Band erstmals drei nachgelassene Erzählungen Schwarzenbachs und ihre Briefe an den Historiker Carl Jacob Burckhardt sowie ihre Korrespondenz mit der Journalistin Margret Boveri. Neben zahlreichen Fotografien enthält der Band zudem eine Bibliographie der Werke von Annemarie Schwarzenbach, in der über 400 Titel, darunter bisher unbekannte Arbeiten, nachgewiesen werden.
