Romane 01

The "Lyrical Novel", as an early literary representation of lesbian love, attracts special attention today. Although the text tells of the unhappy love of a man for a woman. But Annemarie Schwarzenbach confessed after the publication: For a better understanding of the story "one would have had to admit" that the hero is "not a young man, but a girl", "Flucht nach oben" is "disturbingly young and individualistic, quite un-Swiss chic in his behaviour and cosmopolitan in his milieu" (Carl Seelig), his protagonists belong to the "offside", who are always and everywhere foreign. A unique document in Swiss literature of the interwar period of an early existentialist world experience.
Diary, narrative, travelogue, notes on the "attempt" of a - lesbian - love: "Death in Persia" is autobiography and fiction at the same time, confesses and conceals much. It is the testimony of an encounter with the foreign, incomprehensible and abysmal.