Oniritti Cave Paintings
The bright world above, the dark world below: even when walking through the city, there are cave entrances everywhere: on the path to love, to justice or to games. Botho Strauß explores the ...
moreBotho Strauß
Botho Strauss was born in Naumburg in 1944 and lives in Berlin. His most recent publications by Hanser are Herkunft (2014) and Allein mit allen (A book of ideas, 2014).
Origins
Botho Strauß gives us insights into previously undiscovered aspects of his life. His youth, the landscapes and settings of his childhood, the places where he grew up; memories of formative years ...
moreAlone Together
Botho Strauß is one of the most wilful, inventive and influential authors of the German-speaking literary world. Invariably defying convention and shunning the mundane, he has evolved into the ...
moreAll in a Moment
“After all the years of common ground and shared experience, he was suddenly struck by a staggering realisation: this is no longer my wife.” Botho Strauß’s prescient stories, essays and ...
moreHers and His
No other author of his generation has written about love in quite such an evocative and haunting manner as Botho Strauß: about heartbreakers, womanizers and swindlers; about betrayal and ...
moreOn Standing Still
This is a book concerning where we stand as a society, reflecting a profound puzzlement in an age in which we seem to be reeling breathlessly from one crisis to another, without grasping the ...
moreJackstraws
"To a factory owner whose wife had been kidnapped at a trade fair and who had paid a substantial ransom, a woman was returned whom he did not know and had not reported missing." Thus begins one ...
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