An Infinite Sadness - Xerxenesky, Antonio
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Erscheint vorauss. 21. Oktober 2025
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A novel of ideas, both introspective and brutal, inspired by the works of Robert Musil, W. G. Sebald and Hermann Broch. Shortly after the end of World War II, Nicolas, a young French psychiatrist, is invited to work at a hospital in Switzerland, and moves to a nearby village with his wife Anna. Known for its humane treatment methods, the hospital accepts patients from all over Europe. Nicolas rejects treatments like electroshock therapy, preferring to talk with his patients until something is uncovered--either in the patient's unconscious mind or his own. In these conversations, various war…mehr

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A novel of ideas, both introspective and brutal, inspired by the works of Robert Musil, W. G. Sebald and Hermann Broch. Shortly after the end of World War II, Nicolas, a young French psychiatrist, is invited to work at a hospital in Switzerland, and moves to a nearby village with his wife Anna. Known for its humane treatment methods, the hospital accepts patients from all over Europe. Nicolas rejects treatments like electroshock therapy, preferring to talk with his patients until something is uncovered--either in the patient's unconscious mind or his own. In these conversations, various war wounds are brought to the surface, in a delicately balanced game combining trust and madness. The young psychiatrist confronts the demons of historical guilt and seeks to reconcile his materialism with spirituality. Set against the backdrop of the development of the first drugs to treat depression and other mental illnesses, and while discussing issues that are still pertinent to our times, this touching novel forces us to confront past traumas and, above all, to face our fears for the future. Although the story takes place in 1950s Europe, it is also a meditation on the contemporary mental health crisis and a metaphor for the lingering of fascist ideas around the world, with specific references to present-day Brazil.
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Antônio Xerxenesky was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1984, and is based in São Paulo. A writer and translator, he is the author of four novels, including F (2014), which was shortlisted for the São Paulo Literature Award and longlisted for the Prix Médicis Etranger in France, and An Infinite Sadness (originally published in 2021), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature in 2022 and finalist of the Jabuti Prize (2022). In 2015, Xerxenesky was writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and at the Fondation Jan Michalski in 2017. He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo and has translated over 30 books from English and Spanish into Portuguese, including novels by Mario Levrero, Fernanda Melchor, Juan Villoro, George Orwell and Herman Melville. Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with over one hundred books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) include fiction from Europe, Africa and the Americas and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. Recent books include the new Oxford Companion to Children's Literature and translations of Julián Fuks' Resistance and Occupation . He is a former chair of the Society of Authors and is presently on the board of a number of organisations that deal with literature, literacy, translation and free expression. In 2021 Daniel was made an OBE for his services to literature.