Nelio Biedermann, Zurich's Sensation of the Literary Re-Entry: "I Try to Bring Back to Life the Generations that Preceded Me"
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Already translated into English, "Lázár" has become a phenomenon in the United States, and his very young author "the prodigy of Swiss letters". His extensive family novel in Mitteleuropa is now published in French. Full of fervour and electricity, he captures the time that takes everything away. Meeting in Zurich on a stormy dayIt is in July, in a small café on the right bank of Lake Zurich. A storm that was not expected to burst. A miraculous …
With his novel Lázár already translated into twenty languages, the phenomenon of this literary re-entry, 22 years old on the counter, questions both the family memory and the power of fiction. (Passionante) meets.
It is one of the most anticipated foreign novels of this literary re-entry. It is a novel by Nelio Biedermann, a young writer from German-speaking Switzerland, published by Belfond. This extensive historical fresco on a family of the Hungarian nobility earned its author, born in 2003, the praises of the German-speaking press. Here is how the daily newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, in 2025, presented the prodigy.
Family Saga in the background of the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Lázár evokes Thomas Mann (The Buddenbrooks) and Joseph Roth (The March of Radetzky).The post "Lázár" by Nelio Biedermann: the fall of a family, the end of a world appeared first on Benzine Magazine.
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