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Fabiano Alborghetti,

Carole Allamand,

Urs Allemann

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Guido Bachmann,

Jean-Luc Benoziglio,

Sibylle Berg,

Bern ist überall,

Donata Berra,

Clo Duri Bezzola,

Peter Bichsel,

S. Corinna Bille,

Hans Boesch,

Giovanni Bonalumi,

David Bosc,

Nicolas Bouvier,

Anne Brécart,

Irena Brežná,

Lukas Bärfuss,

Katja Brunner,

Ernst Burren,

Julien Burri,

Roland Buti

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Arno Camenisch,

Alex Capus,

Maurice Chappaz,

Gaston Cherpillod,

Jacques Chessex,

Anita Siegfried (Text),

Claudia de Weck (Ill.),

Martina Clavadetscher,

David Collin,

Nicolas Couchepin

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Flurin Darms,

Massimo Daviddi,

Martin R. Dean,

Zora del Buono,

Max Huwyler (Text),

Dieter Leuenberger (Ill.),

Franz Dodel,

Elvira Dones,

Friedrich Dürrenmatt,

Ralph Dutli

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Dorothee Elmiger,

Lisa Elsässer

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Urs Faes,

Luisa Famos,

Andrea Fazioli,

Michael Fehr,

Anna Felder,

Felice Filippini,

Catalin D. Florescu,

Eleonore Frey,

Ursula Fricker,

Alexandre Friederich,

Max Frisch

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Zsuzsanna Gahse,

Katharina Geiser,

Massimo Gezzi,

Andrea Gianinazzi,

Dagny Gioulami,

Eugen Gomringer,

Nora Gomringer,

Roman Graf,

Dana Grigorcea

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Heinz Helle,

Reto Hänny,

Franz Hohler,

Thomas Hürlimann,

Michael Hugentobler,

Sandra Hughes

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Felix Philipp Ingold

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Anja Jardine,

Hanna Johansen

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Lorenz Pauli (Text),

Kathrin Schärer (Ill.),

Christoph Keller,

Birgit Kempker,

Pascale Kramer,

Thilo Krause,

Agota Kristof,

Tim Krohn,

Robert Walser (Text),

Käthi Bhend (Ill.),

Meral Kureyshi

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Monique Laederach,

Rolf Lappert,

Doris Lecher,

Pedro Lenz,

Pierre Lepori,

Eva Maria Leuenberger,

Gertrud Leutenegger,

Hugo Loetscher,

Catherine Louis,

Jonas Lüscher

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Urs Mannhart,

Pietro de Marchi,

Plinio Martini,

Grytzko Mascioni,

Mariella Mehr,

Jérôme Meizoz,

Klaus Merz,

Michel Mettler,

Jörg Müller,

Gianna Molinari,

Perikles Monioudis,

Adolf Muschg

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Melinda Nadj Abonji,

Andreas Neeser,

Jens Nielsen

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Giovanni Orelli,

Angelika Overath

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Rose-Marie Pagnard,

Andri Peer,

Oscar Peer,

Anne Perrier,

Rut Plouda,

Marius Daniel Popescu,

Dubravko Pušek,

Fabio Pusterla

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Claudia Quadri

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Kuno Raeber,

Philippe Rahmy,

Dragica Rajčić,

Ilma Rakusa,

Nicolas Robel,

Antonio Rossi,

Gustave Roud,

Anna Ruchat,

Simona Ryser

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Catherine Safonoff,

Isolde Schaad,

Hansjörg Schertenleib,

Michail Schischkin,

Hansjörg Schneider,

Kathrin Schärer,

Jürg Schubiger,

Hans Schumacher,

Ruth Schweikert,

Monique Schwitter,

Jon Semadeni,

Tommaso Soldini,

Anna Sommer,

Peter Stamm,

Michael Stauffer,

Bruno Steiger,

Michelle Steinbeck,

Jens Steiner,

Carmen Stephan,

Beat Sterchi,

Martin Suter

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José-Flore Tappy,

Pierre-Alain Tâche,

Matteo Terzaghi,

Leo Tuor

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Marie-Jeanne Urech,

Raphael Urweider

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Aglaja Veteranyi,

Christina Viragh,

Peter von Matt

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Robert Walser,

Frédéric Wandelère,

Julia Weber,

Peter Weber,

Markus Werner,

Urs Widmer

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Mary-Laure Zoss,

Matthias Zschokke

Pascale Kramer

Gloria

« À quoi se mesurait finalement la normalité des vies? »

When Michel receives a phone call from Gloria, asking him to go and see her, he knows he should say ‘no’: he shouldn’t go. Gloria belongs to his past, he was involved with her years before. He knew her at that time in his life, when he was still married and was working in an advice centre that she occasionally visited, when she was hanging out on the streets. In the meantime, Michel has been sacked by the advice centre: they said at first it was because he was being too sympathetic to clients; then he was accused of having inappropriate relationships with children.
In spite of this, Michel goes to see Gloria, who is now living with her three year-old daughter. Gloria is still the childish woman he knew back then: pigheaded and intellectually lazy. But she has matured in the intervening years. So will she thank him for the support he gave her all that time ago?
Her attitude towards her daughter, Naïs, very soon begins to worry Michel. He had advised her to keep her child, though her own adoptive parents would have preferred an abortion. And so, within a few months, they become involved again in the same way as before, in the same complicated relationship they had in former times: who is helping whom? Which of them is really reliant on the other? Who has the dominant role?
As always in Pascale Kramer’s books, children are central to the story. They shed light on so many issues: the cracks and rifts of life. In Gloria, Pascale Kramer deals with the ambivalent feelings that mark out human relationships.
(Martin Zingg, translated by Max Easterman, Rosie Goldsmith)

Recommended for translation by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia: www.12swissbooks.ch

Flammarion, Paris 2013

ISBN: 978-2-08-129510-0

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