Ausgewählte Werke von Annemarie Schwarzenbach / Tod in Persien

No other country exerted such a pull on Annemarie Schwarzenbach as Persia. It is the cipher for her life and writing. Fatefully, she was repeatedly drawn to this distant and exotic land, as was the case in the mid-1930s when this text was created. The author's fundamental conflict between social engagement and the pursuit of personal happiness is expressed in Persia's superhuman grandeur and strangeness. The incredibly dense descriptions of the landscape are often permeated by the narrator's agonizing sense of alienation, and the dark scenery also casts a shadow over human relationships.

The records of the attempt at a lesbian love are simultaneously a diary, a narrative, and a travelogue. Death in Persia is both autobiography and fiction, confessing and concealing much. It is a testament to an encounter with the foreign, unfathomable and profound.