These poems talk about time, evanescence and about sense and nonsense, in the tradition of Daniil Charms and his friends.
Ilma Rakusa embraces Berlin and devotes an empathetic and multi-layered portrait to it.
No Day Without is a lyrical chronicle of the years 2020 to 2022 – personal, intimate and at the same time Ilma Rakusa’s most political book.
Encounters with people and places, temporary breaks from the loneliness, in Zurich and Graz, on Mont Ventoux and in the Slovenian karst are the central elements in these fourteen narratives.
Autobiographical stops from an author, who found her emotional home in music and literature.
A novel about the nagging feeling to always be missing out on the present.
In his first novel, Stefan Schmitzer takes the reader to troublesome spots in our cities, our social lives: hardship, violence, lack of perspectives – the perfect conditions for a very special action movie.
»This novel is staggeringly beautiful. It keeps soliciting the reader’s empathy and shows once more the complexity, and above all fragility, of the human soul.« (Gerlinde Tamerl, Der Standard)
»With the current novel Ocean Breeze the author succeeds in a masterpiece on a narrow space.« (Sylvia Treidl, Buchkultur)
»A grand document of literary disillusion, inebriated by language.« (NZZ)
»They are formulas which, in an uncomfortable way, are made up of language itself …« (Elfriede Jelinek)
Several theatre classics, translated into »Schwabian«.
A surreal chamber play in the far north, in which a promising cultural assignment becomes a bloody nightmare for a young woman.
Testimonials of one of the most important Austrian authors of the 1990s
Besides Schwabs numerous plays, this is his first published novel.
Outrageously captivating stories about encounters – where the rubber meets the road.
An intelligent read: dramatic, erotic, captivating.
What is love? Why can love come and go? Where does love go when it goes?
And what is happening to the current love?