{"product_id":"on-life-death-and-this-and-that-of-the-rest","title":"On Life, Death and This and That of the Rest","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Seagull Books, 2013. First English Language Edition. Octavo with black boards and black endpapers in off-white pictorial jacket; 119p; bibliography; 21cm Fine in fine jacket, now in archival mylar. Hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"At the beginning of 2007, Urs Widmer--described by the Independent as 'one of the living greats of Swiss literature' -- spoke to more than twelve hundred students and enthusiasts, sharing the sum of his understandings of poets and their timeless creations.[...] Widmer imparts his views on the poet as deviant and as sufferer, and as the conduit for the dream of singing to the imagination in the nameless voice of the people, the megalomania and the memory of life and death. This translation brings to the English-language readership what the Frankfurter Allgemeine zeitung calls 'the experience of an author who knows like no other the great questions of life and literature.\" --Jacket copy. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Widmer, Urs; McLaughlin, Donal (Translator)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51031386161410,"sku":"106501","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/106501.jpg?v=1794414288","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/on-life-death-and-this-and-that-of-the-rest","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}