{"product_id":"9780857420169","title":"Lyric Novella","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnemarie Schwarzenbach—journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler—has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the late 1980s. \u003ci\u003eLyric Novella\u003c\/i\u003e is her story of a young man’s obsession with a Berlin variété actress. Despite having his future career mapped out for him in the diplomatic service, the young man begins to question all his family values under Sibylle’s spell. His family, future, and social standing become irrelevant when set against his overriding compulsion to pick her up every night from the theater so they can go for a drive.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSchwarzenbach’s clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. In fact, she admitted after publication that her hero was in fact a young woman, not a man, leaving little doubt that \u003ci\u003eLyric Novella\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary tale of lesbian love during socially and politically turbulent times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the German Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The subject of Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s story is not failed love— Sibylle’s apparent emotional coldness—but the failure of love—the protagonist’s helpless inability, in the crucial moment, to accept his human responsibility toward the beloved.”— \u003ci\u003eNeue Zürcher Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The work bears the face of its time, but it is so gentle, silent and veiled that one can barely exclude the person behind the mask. A mask is in fact this face, because the hero is a heroine who does not want to be seen.”—\u003ci\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seagull Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031638720752,"sku":"9780857420169","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780857420169_p0.jpg?v=1763828261","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780857420169","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}