A Remedy for Mortality

A boy boots the ball out of the mud on a football pitch and scores a fatal own goal. A girl in a yellow dress drags a heavy water can through an African wasteland. A father struggles frantically to regain his honour.   Christoph Ransmayr turns memories into stories which give thanks for the accolades he received following the success of his novel Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit. In these three talks, we experience the writer up close, almost intimately, as he takes a vehement stand against barbarism, populism and ignorance. In A Remedy for Mortality, he adds the note of thanks to the picture story, the tirade, the duet, and various other forms, extending his experimentation with narrative in his series Unterwegs nach Babylon.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 23.10.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-397478-2
  • 64 Pages
  • Author: Christoph Ransmayr
Buchcover von A Remedy for Mortality: Drei Geschichten zum Dank
Christoph RansmayrA Remedy for Mortality
Portrait von Christoph Ransmayr
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Christoph Ransmayr

Christoph Ransmayr  was born in 1954 in Wels/Upper Austria and now lives again in Vienna after years in Ireland and traveling. Alongside popular and internationally acclaimed novels such as  The Terrors of Ice and Darkness ,  The Last World ,  Morbus Kitahara ,  The Flying Mountain ,  Cox or The Course of Time ,  The Lockmaster. A Short Story of Killing  and the  Atlas of an Anxious Man  he publishes experiments with narrative forms, like  Under a Sky of Sugar. Ballads and Poems which has recently been sold to Seagull Books. Among other literary awards, he has received the Friedrich Hölderlin, the Franz Kafka, and the Bert Brecht prizes, the Kleist Prize, the Premio Mondello, and, together with Salman Rushdie, the European Union's Prix Aristeion, as well as the Prix du meilleur livre étranger and the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne.