Gourrama friedrich glauser biography

Friedrich Glauser (4 February in Vienna – 8 December in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer.

Friedrich Glauser ( - ) was a German-language Swiss writer.

In "Gourrama", Friedrich Glauser takes readers into a fascinating world shaped by the conflicts and culture of a Moroccan Berber village.

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Gourrama

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¿Los legionarios? Una raza brutal, un hatajo de ladrones, asesinos, violadores y fanfarrones, muchos fanfarrones. Inventan un pasado que no existe, por darse un rol, un rol que tampoco existe. Porque cambia día a día bajo el sol de África. Son hombres, con todos los defectos de los hombres y ningún mérito, ni siquiera el de la amistad. En este libro no hay héroes, no hay batallas. O más bien una sola, narrada cuando ya sus protagonistas no pueden hacer nada. Hay historias de individuos que quieren sobrevivir. Sobre todo a sus defectos. Individuos que corrompen y se dejan corromper, que matan y se dejan matar. Traicionan y se dejan traicionar. Ninguno es de medalla, ninguno ha sido galardonado con la Legión de Honor. No hay hombres fuerte, impávidos. Sí, hombres que huyen. De sí mismos y de su naturaleza. No tienen ideales, los han perdido a lo largo del camino que les ha llevado a un pequeño puesto avanzado en el corazón del Sáhara. En efecto, parece que disfr

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Friedrich Glauser

In Matto's Realm (Sergeant Studer, #3)
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Thumbprint
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The Chinaman
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Fever (Wachtmeister Studer #2)
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Il tè delle tre vecchie signore
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The Spoke: A Sergeant Studer Mystery
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Gourrama: Un långnovell de la Légion étrangère

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I primi casi del sergente Studer
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Morfina
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La negromante di Endor
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Friedrich Glauser

Friedrich Glauser (4 February in Vienna – 8 December in Nervi) was a German-language Swiss writer.

Biography

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Glauser was a morphine and opium addict for most of his life. In his first novel Gourrama, written between and , he treated his own experiences at the French Foreign Legion.

The evening before his wedding day, he suffered a stroke caused by cerebral infarction, and died two days later.

A year after his death, the film Thumbprint was released featuring Glauser's character Sergeant Studer, which became a commercial success.^[1]

Friedrich Glauser's literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern. Since , the annual Glauser Prize&#;[de] has been one of the best-known German-language crime writing awards.

Stories

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The Sergeant Studer detective novels are set in the Switzerland and Europe of the s, and make frequent reference to current European history, such as the Weimar Republic hyperinfla