Miscellaneous (Adolf Muschg. O mein Heimatland!).(Review)(Brief Article)

World Literature Today | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

Adolf Muschg. O mein Heimatland! 150 Versuche mit dem beruhmten Schweizer Echo. Frankfurt a.M. Suhrkamp. 1998. 349 pages. DM 42. ISBN 3-518-41015-6.

At the 1998 Frankfurt Book Fair, which featured books from Switzerland, Adolf Muschg's new work (with a title from Gottfried Keller) provided the sensation. A quirky mixture of Swiss history, personal autobiography, literary essay, and political pamphlet, the volume covers a sometimes confusing melee of subjects, which turn out in the end to be brilliantly interwoven.

In 1997 the Swiss novelist, essayist, and ...

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