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On life, death, and this and that of the rest : the Frankfurt lectures on poetics / Urs Widmer ; translated by Donal McLaughlin.
Van Pelt Library PN1044 .W5313 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Widmer, Urs, 1938-2014, author.
- Series:
- Swiss list
- The Swiss list
- Standardized Title:
- Vom Leben, vom Tod und vom Übrigen auch dies und das. English
- Language:
- English
- Swiss German
- Subjects (All):
- Poetics.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 119 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Seagull Books, 2013.
- Contents:
- Lecture 1. On deviating from the norm
- Lecture 2. On the suffering of writers
- Lecture 3. On the dream of singing anonymously in the voice of the people
- Lecture 4. On imagination, megalomania, memory, death and life
- Lecture 5. On Oedipus the King and Sophocles.
- Notes:
- Translated from the German: Vom Leben, vom Tod und vom Übrigen auch dies und das. Zurich : Diogenes Verlag, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 116-[120]).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Flora Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780857421005
- 085742100X
- OCLC:
- 844872064
- Publisher Number:
- 99954836806
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