Catalan Rights (selection, Club Editor), Arabic world rights (Al'Asreya), France (Verdier), Italy (Del Vecchio Editore)
Whether in the story of a play-acted shooting or in the everyday drama of a real-life separation – all the texts in The Time-Balance are about decisive turning-points, about the grotesque quality of life, and our often futile endeavours to alter the course of things.
»I go to the watchmaker Walinski once a week to put my watch on the timing machine. Ever since I discovered that I’m actually a dreamer (»a damn dreamer«, as my father always used to say), I am completely at peace; I am at peace and ease and only do what I want to. Things that I know are good for me.«
With the composure of an acrobat, this dreamer wanders Berlin after the fall of the wall. Of the things that come into his possession in the process is a unique watch whose ticks tell him the tale of what has happened to him.
Lutz Seiler’s long-anticipated new book contains thirteen other stories along side Turksib, which was awarded the Ingeborg Bachman Prize. Whether the stories relate a staged shooting or a real separation from the drama of daily life, all the works in The Time-Balance revolve around decisive turning points, the grotesque in life and our often futile struggle for another path.
»Vast, passionately poetic tenderness in every line of this nostalgic tale. ... A grandiose and original debut that sets itself clearly apart from the insipid, commercially successful self-centred prose of many young authors.« sandammeer.at
As a writer of prose fiction, too, the poet Seiler proves – like the clockmaker in The Time Balance – to be a gifted precision mechanic of language.« Wiener Zeitung
»[...] of well-nigh masterly perfection« »Lutz Seiler is a magnificently poised narrator of the collateral damage inflicted on the soul by the communist system.« Die Zeit Literaturbeilage
»Lutz Seiler has long been considered one of the most important German poets. [...] The appearance of these 13 short stories now places him indis-putably among the leading writers of prose.« Mannheimer Morgen
Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason and a carpenter and completed his studies in 1990. Since 1997, he has been the literary director and custodian of the Peter Huchel Museum. He was writer-in-residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and at the German Academy in Rome. His many prizes include the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, the Bremen Prize for Literature, the Fontane Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, and most recently the Georg Büchner Prize.
Lutz Seiler was born in Gera, Thuringia, in 1963 and today lives in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin and in Stockholm. He underwent training as a mason...
Sweden (Edda)
»November 1989. The Berlin Wall has just fallen when the East German couple Inge und Walter, following a secret dream they’ve harboured all their lives, set out for life in the West....
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»In Case of Loss gathers the best of Lutz Seiler’s non-fiction from last twenty-five years, revealing his essays to be different to, but on a par with, his fiction and poetry....
English world rights (And Other Stories), Italy (selection, Del Vecchio)
Lutz Seiler‘s poems, created between 2000 and 2003, undertake a journey through forty kilometres of night, they lead out of the native landscape, destroyed by uranium mining, depicted in pech...
English world rights (And Other Stories)
English world rights (And Other Stories)