Summary
Hugo Loetscher: Was my time my time
"Just a few days before the publication of Was my time my time, Hugo Loetscher died as a result of a major heart operation at the age of 79 in Zurich [18/08/2009]. This work was supposed to be the writer's intellectual and biographical balance. But it became his bequest through which he once again carefully, self-ironically, humorously and movingly presented the great themes of his life. Like all his other works, this too teems with the joy and pleasure of storytelling, which are combined with the passion of a humanist and the gentleness of a moralist, not shying away from asking the most important existential questions. The boy grew up, became a writer and left his mark in the footsteps of the boatman. Starting from the river of his childhood, the Zurich Zil, he reached the Volga, the Nile, the Amazon, the Yangtze... Remembering his travels all over the world, the great Swiss writer Hugo Loetscher writes his intellectual biography and balances it out near the end of his life. His story flows along rivers and bridges, swirling with spiritual curiosity and wonder and meandering from humor to melancholy. Loetscher brilliantly sketches a geographical map of his sensibility from river and life courses. But at the same time, he develops his life and literary themes to a comprehensive autogeography, to a story about the development of a global consciousness. The author, as we learn from this work with which he said goodbye to the world, was born under the constellation of the question mark, a skeptic who knows that questions are often more beautiful and important than answers, a man with an inexhaustibly curious spirit, a cosmopolitan who is always on the way to new shores and unknown lands and, finally, an incorrigible humanist.
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