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“Request Stop” (title translated by AI)
Urs Faes (born 1947)
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Right after the diagnosis, he finds no words. Only later, on the daily tram ride across the city, seventeen stops and twenty-seven minutes to the clinic, does he try to name things and write down what is happening to him: the underworld of oncology, the tiredness after radiation, memories of childhood and origins, of tram rides with his father and the cinema with his teenage friend Mile, of being left in Paris and saying goodbye to a lover. Facing possible death, he asks what he has lived and what he has missed. A fragmentary autobiography, an account of illness and a tribute to writing.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 198 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Switzerland
- First published
- 2017 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 70 when first published
- ISBN
9783518425831 (original)