Samuel Herzog - You don't slurp alpine oysters

Reading with Samuel Herzog and Mathias Balzer

The latest book by author, journalist and artist Samuel Herzog is a literary homage to the landscapes and people of Graubünden, in which fiction and reality meet in a surprising, very entertaining and humorous way.

But the book also offers a key to Samuel Herzog's sprawling work, on which the artist and former NZZ author has been working for over twenty years. It is about reports that Samuel Herzog writes on his world travels. And it is also about literary journeys to his fictional island of Lemusa.

Samuel Herzog reads texts from his entire literary universe and presents his complete works in conversation with cultural journalist Mathias Balzer.