Barbara Nagel Discusses Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Freunde um Bernhard
Sexual Revolution, Counterrevolution, Melancholy: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Freunde um Bernhard (1931) How to tell a story from the perspective of the boy-muse? This talk undertakes a reparative reading of the first novel of the then 23-year-old Swiss writer, journalist, traveler, and androgynous icon Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42), in light of trenchant critiques of its alleged compositional deficits. If […]