Swiss literature: between fact and fiction

Literary writing from the 20th to the 21st century has brought to light an affinity between fiction and fact. Whilst the shifts in this dichotomy are currently a focus of critical attention and are enabling substantial advances in the analysis of literary output from recent decades, those within the field of Swiss literature have been little explored to date.

The authors of this volume seek to demonstrate the relationship between the fictional and the factual in Swiss literature, their boundaries, but also their interplay, between play and seduction, compromise and hybridisation, by examining the various strategies devised by Swiss writers to shed light on the complexities of their reality.

From leading figures in Swiss literature (Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch) to authors of crime novels (Joël Dicker, Joseph Incardona, Sébastien Meier), autobiographical narratives (Urs Widmer, Yves Laplace and Benoît Damon) and texts on otherness (Gertrud Leutenegger, Anna Felder, Ilma Rakusa, Fabiano Alborghetti, Lukas Bärfuss,…) or communicative subversion (Catherine Safonoff, Matthias Zschokke): the range of writers examined here reflects the richness of contemporary Swiss literature.

Contributions by:

Daniel Annen, Régine Battiston, Jacqueline Bel, Tania Collani, Martina Della Casa, Sylviane Dupuis, Emily Eder, Sylvie Jeanneret, Stéphane Maffli, Daniel Maggetti, Daniel Rothenbühler, Hubert Thüring

Publisher’s website:  http://pus.unistra.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28682100233110