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Another World, in This One: Teju Cole's Switzerland
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TejuCole, Fernweh (London: MACK, 2020, £35.00). isbn978 1 9123 3954 9.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
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In the summer of 2014, Teju Cole left his home in New York and travelled to Switzerland, the recipient of a residential fellowship from Literaturhaus Zürich. His residency came with a stipend, an apartment facing the distant mountains in a quiet part of the city, and the requirement that he reside in Switzerland for the better part of six months – though not necessarily in Zurich. Cole anticipated an opportunity for sustained absorption in his manuscript-in-progress, a nonfictional work about Lagos, where he grew up: “where better to write about chaotic, relentless, overpopulated Lagos than in modest, quietly industrious Zürich?” But what followed was a period less of writing than of mesmerized wandering and photography, through a country Cole evokes as “more different than others,” travelling by every available mode of public transport from the funicular to the ferry, with an old Yashica camera in his hands.
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1 Teju Cole, “Far Away from Here,” New York Times Magazine, 23 Sept. 2015, at www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/magazine/far-away-from-here.html.
2 Cole, Fernweh, n.p. (Fernweh is unpaginated).
3 Cole, “Far Away from Here.”
4 Ibid.
5 Cole, Fernweh.
6 Ibid.
7 Cole, “Far Away from Here.”
8 Sunil Shah, “Fernweh: An Interview with Teju Cole,” American Suburb X, 5 March 2020, at https://americansuburbx.com/2020/03/fernweh-an-interview-with-teju-cole.html.
9 Cole, “Far Away from Here.”
10 John Ashbery, “Cornell's Sublime Junk,” Newsweek, 8 Dec. 1980, 111.
11 Cole, “Far Away from Here.”
12 Ibid.
13 Cole interview with Shah.
14 Baldwin, James, “Stranger in the Village,” in Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (New York: Bantam, 1964; first published 1955), 135–49, 135Google Scholar.
15 Ibid., 137.
16 Ibid., 139.
17 Ibid., 140.
18 Teju Cole, “Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's ‘Stranger in the Village’,” New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2014, at www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/black-body-re-reading-james-baldwins-stranger-village.
19 Baldwin, 141.
20 Ibid., 148.
21 Teju Cole, “In Praise of the Photobook” (27 March 2020), at https://mackbooks.co.uk/blogs/news/in-praise-of-the-photobook-by-teju-cole.
22 Cole, “Far Away from Here.”
23 Mandel, Emily St. John, Station Eleven (London: Picador, 2015; first published 2014), 149Google Scholar.
24 Cole, Fernweh.