The Summer of the Elder Tree Switzerland offer us more than an

offer us more than an historical and philosophical study

Ivan Ângelo's remarkable novel connects and implicates the lives of a complex of characters

He was founder of the Moscow–Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics

” —New York Review of Books

and self-important critics

The Summer of the Elder Tree Switzerland offer us more than anWith uncompromising sincerity, and in the same beautiful prose for which she is renowned, Marie Chaix here takes stock of her life as a woman and writer, as well as the crises that caused her to give up her work. A meditation on the themes of separation and silence, The Summer of the Elder Tree was Marie Chaix's first book to appear in fourteen years, and deals with the reasons for her withdrawal from writing, as well as the events in her life since