Catherine Colomb Livres

Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb is known as one of the most unusual and inventive francophone novelists of the twentieth century. Fascinated by the processes of memory and consciousness, she has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. The Spirits of the Earth is the first English translation of Colomb's work and its arrival will introduce new readers to an iconic novel. The Spirits of the Earth is at heart a family drama, set at the Fraidaigue château, along the shores of Lake Geneva, and in the Maison d'en Haut country mansion, located in the hills above the lake. In these luxe locales, readers encounter upper-class characters with faltering incomes, parvenues, and even ghosts. Throughout, Colomb builds a psychologically penetrating and bold story in which the living and the dead intermingle and in which time itself is a mystery.

Erfüllt von tausend Bildern, die andere Leute in sich zerstören, um wie Händler nur das Nützliche zu behalten, schwankte er, wenn er aus dem Stall kam, verwechselte Ost und West, Raum und Zeit.

Maria Dessauer wurde 1920 in Frankfurt am Main geboren und war Schriftstellerin, Literaturübersetzerin und von 1974 bis 1983 Lektorin beim Suhrkamp Verlag. Unter anderem übersetzte sie die Werke von Lewis Caroll, Marguerite Duras und Gustave Flaubert. Dessauer starb am 21. Januar 2021 in Frankfurt.