Ausgewählt von Meredith Barth. Schlendern, flanieren, wandern: Seit Jahrhunderten geht der Mensch spazieren – hinaus in die Welt, hin zu sich selbst. Durch Landschaften und Städte, durch vertraute Straßen oder unbekannte Länder. Zur Entspannung, als Inspiration, zur Meditation, als Flucht. Geschichten und Gedanken über das Gehen von Virginia Woolf, Urs Widmer, Benedict Wells, Amélie Nothomb, Rebecca Solnit, Katherine Mansfield, Franz Kafka, Doris Dörrie, Zadie Smith, Franz Hessel, Lena Gorelik, Johny Pitts, Christoph Simon, Marlen Haushofer, Erlin Kagge, Shane O’Mara, Ian McEwan, Helen Macdonald, Lauren Elkin und Teju Cole.
Authors
Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984. At the age of six he was sent to a state boarding school due two family and other problems at home. Following his graduation from high school in 2003, he decided not to go to university but instead moved to Berlin to pursue his writing. He made a living doing odd jobs. His fourth novel, ›The End of Loneliness‹, spent more than a year and a half on the Spiegel Bestseller list, was awarded the 2016 ›European Union Prize for Literature‹, among other awards, and has been published in 38 languages. After several years in Barcelona, Benedict Wells now lives in Zurich. Three current book recommendations: "Girl, woman other" by Bernardine Evaristo. "Stoner" by John Williams. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls. Homepage: https://www.benedictwells.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Benedict-Wel... Readings: https://www.diogenes.ch/leser/autoren...
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
