All the Roads Are Open

The Afghan Journey

Annemarie Schwarzenbach (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

124 Seiten

2021
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85742-822-6 (ISBN)

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In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan’s Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach’s turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the “fateful laws known as progress,” a remote yet “sensitive nerve centre of world politics” caught amid great powers in upheaval. In her writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate beauty of landscapes both internal and external, reflecting on the longings and loneliness of travel as well as its grace. Maillart’s account of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a classic of travel literature, and, now available for the first time in English, Schwarzenbach’s memoir rounds out the story of the adventure. Praise for the German Edition “Above all, [Schwarzenbach’s] discovery of the Orient was a personal one. But the author never loses sight of the historical and social context. . . . She shows no trace of colonialist arrogance. In fact, the pieces also reflect the experience of crisis, the loss of confidence which, in that decade, seized the long-arrogant culture of the West.”—Süddeutsche Zeitung

Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908–42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. She is the author of the poem Aus Tétouan, Der Krater der Tiere, Das Wunder des Baumes. Isabel Fargo Cole is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator.

Introduction
A Note on the Text and Translation

Part One: Mount Ararat
    Balkan Borders
    Therapia
    Trebizond: Farewell to the Sea
    Mount Ararat
Part Two: The Steppe
    The Steppe
    The Prisoners
    No Man's Land: Between Persia and Afghanistan
Part Three: The Women of Kabul
    Herat, 1 August 1939...
    The Hind Kush Three Times
    In the Garden of the Beautiful Girls of Qaisar
    The Women of Kabul
Part Four: The Bank of the Oxus
     The Neighbouring Village
    The Bank of the Oxus
    The Potters of Istalif
    The Grip to Ghazni
Part Five: Two Women Alone in Afghanistan
    Two Women Alone in Afghanistan
    Chehel Sotun
Part Six: Onward to Peshawar...
    Onward to Peshawar...
    Aden, a Morning Vision
    The Trip Down the Suez Canal

Text Sources
Afterword: 'My existence in the exile of distant adventure'
      Roger Perret

Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Seagull Library of German Literature
Übersetzer	Isabel Fargo Cole
Verlagsort	Greenford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	172 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Asien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-85742-822-5 / 0857428225
ISBN-13	978-0-85742-822-6 / 9780857428226
Zustand	Neuware