New arrival from Moloko+:
Udo Breger – Extraterritorial (Zeiten mit Carl Laszlo)
“Carl Laszlo, Auschwitz survivor, art collector and art dealer with Hungarian roots, and German author and translator Udo Breger, born during World War II with close ties to key figures of the Beat Generation, meet in Basel in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One hopes to establish personal contact with William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Allen Ginsberg, while the other turns out to be a mediator who, against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its effects on Jews and Germans, seeks not only to cultivate his friendship with Laszlo but also to create historical clarity for himself. In this field of tensions, literary activities repeatedly lead to unusual situations in Basel and New York, which occasionally contain a certain comic element and offer insights into the thoughts and actions of two contrasting, yet complementary characters…”
(translated from the blurb of this edition)