The space between two words / Lespace entre deux mots

A literary myth to discover in the Romandy region and the German-speaking area: the poet Georges Haldas. Georges Haldas, the Geneva writer with notably thick glasses and Greek roots, is known in German-speaking Switzerland primarily as a chronicler of the Rhône city and perhaps also for his passion for football. However, his complete lyrical work, which encompasses more than a thousand poems, each "a fragment of the unspeakable," has hardly been noticed until now. For the first time, a representative selection from the wealth of poems published by Haldas, who found the poetic in everything and everywhere, has been translated into German by Christoph Ferber. With an unheard-of sensitivity and intensity, he speaks in mostly concise, abruptly juxtaposed sentences and images about the small things that make up life, about pain and.