“No writer in his right mind writes an autobiography. For an autobiography is the final book. After one’s autobiography, there is nothing. All material exhausted. No mystery left to memory.” Thus opens the recent autobiography written by the eminent, prolific, impish and indubitably sane Swiss writer Urs Widmer in time for his 75th birth­day. Predictably, […]

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