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The Communicating Vessels
Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling
Friederike Mayröcker (born 1924)
Translated by Alexander Booth
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The Communicating Vessels
A Public Space Books · United States · 2 March 2021 · 264 pages
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After the death of her companion in life and in writing, a poet gathers memories and dreams, conversations and quotations, impressions and observations. Again and again she waits for the fertile moment when writing and harvesting become one and sentences fall onto the paper like ripe fruit. What emerges is a book of remembrance and a long farewell: about grief and love, and about the fear of losing writing, storytelling and memory itself.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 237 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2005 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 81 when first published
- ISBN
9783518417096 (original)
9780998267586 (A Public Space Books, United States)
- More
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