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The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie

Ágota Kristóf
Contemporary Hungarian-Swiss Literature

All three novels revolve around two brothers, Claus and Lucas. They are twins. Perfect reflections of one another. In The Notebook, they are abandoned at their grandmother’s during a brutal war (presumably World War II) in their country (presumably in Europe) and, using a notebook, they practice hardening themselves against outside threats and internal ones as well.

Sweet Days of Discipline

Fleur Jaeggy
Contemporary Italian-Swiss Literature

aeggy’s starkness has an edge almost of brutality. She doesn’t mince words, she doesn’t dance around what she is trying to say. A confidence and absolute assurance resonates in her work that I rarely see in other authors.

The Judge and His Hangman

Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Contemporary Swiss Crime

I can go ahead and admit that I have a problem. I collect kitty-cat knickknacks. This is a review of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Judge and His Hangman.