UDC 821.112.2BBK 84(4Shva)V42

The book was published with the support of the Swiss Cultural FoundationPRO HELVETIA

Widmer U. My Mother’s Lover: A Novel / Urs Widmer; Trans. with him. O. Aspisova. - M.: Text, 2004. - 158 pp.

ISBN 5-7516-0406-7

For the first time in Russia, a book by Urs Widmer (b. 1938), whom critics call a successor to the traditions of F. Dürrenmatt and M. Frisch and ranks among the brightest contemporary Swiss authors. This is the story of a woman’s reckless and unrequited love for a famous musician, told by her son with emphasized detachment, almost indifference, which makes the tragedy even more poignant. The novel “My Mother’s Lover” is the story of a silent, all-consuming passion that a woman experiences throughout her life for a man, cold to the point of cruelty and indifferent to everything except music. The Russian reader is getting acquainted for the first time with the work of Urs Widmer, one of the leading contemporary Swiss authors writing in German.

Urs Widmer's novel proves that modern German literature can be fascinating, exciting, sensual - while remaining the literature of itself high level.

"Süddeutsche Zeitung"

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