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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Fair to Good. First Edition. Dust jacket worn rubbed to edges with a little loss. Price clipped.Original cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. 288 pages clean and tight. A series of twelve literary essays. Although Switzerland is only a small nation, she can look back on a long and fascinating history. The Swiss Confederation can be described as the end product of prevailing common sense which welded together four distinctly different ethnic and linguistic groups and safeguarded their independent cultural development. So while there is no truly "Swiss" literature, one can speak with Professor Calgari of "The four Literatures of Switzerland", of which the German-language sector naturally is predominant, as German is the mother tongue of about 70 per cent of the Swiss population. This volume tries to do justice to all facets of the intriguing Swiss literary scene, its diversity and its common "esprit suisse" and hopes to convey the spirit of a small country in which culture and literary creation have always been and continue to be of vital importance. Size: 8vo.…

ex libris (usual cancellation stamps pkts etc) 245pp VG+(v sl gum stains to ep's & boards) d/w VG+(in plastic).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Very Good +. 3rd Impression. Twelve Literary Essays.Previous Owners Insc.ffep.d/w:p.c.Minor chips to back cover & head of spine.

orig.boards. 22x14cm, 288 pp Contents: Guido Calgari "The Literatures of Switzerland"; Liliane Fearn " Henri-Frederic Amiel"; Fernand Auberjonois "Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz & the Way of the Anti-Poet"; Charly Guyot "The Literature of French-speaking Switzerland in the 20th Century"; Guido Calgari "Italian Switzerland & National Literature"; Andri Peer "Rhaeto-Romanic Literature"; J.R. Foster "Jeremias Gotthelf"; J.M. Lindsay "Gottfried Keller"; W.E. Yuill "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer"; Werner Gunther "Carl Spitteler"; H.M. Waidson "Robert Walser"; Martin Esslin "Max Frisch"; H.M. Waidson "Friedrich Durrenmatt"; Bibliography. Some minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper.…