Beiträge
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Jonas Lüscher
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
Culture is a thin varnish covering the chasms of barbarianism. Disasters churn it up; they are the well-spring of contradictions: collective solidarity and unconventional force. Jonas Lüscher’s much ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Hans Christoph Buch
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
In the books written by Hans Christoph Buch, the sun often gleams from a blank sky...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Najem Wali
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
In “The Invisible Cities” (“Le Città invisibili”), Italo Calvino wrote, “The hell of the living is not something that will be”. It is already here; it takes on real contours...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Petina Gappah
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
Some rulers seem to live forever. Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe is one of them. Born in 1924, there seems to be no end to his almost 40-year-old regime. In Petina Gappah’s debut novel “The Book of ...
An interview with translator Don Bartlett
Veröffentlicht von West Camel | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Don Bartlett has translated some of Norway’s most prominent and popular contemporary writers, including Jo Nesbø, Roy Jacobsen, Lars Saabye Christensen and Kjell Ola Dahl...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Gabriela Babnik
Veröffentlicht von Judith Vonberg | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
Multiple stories are interwoven in Gabriela Babnik’s Dry Season...
CROWD Literature’s Omnibus Project
Veröffentlicht von Steven J. Fowler | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
CROWD Literature’s Omnibus project was a literary tour like few others, running from May to August in 2016, from the far north of Finland to the beaches of the Mediterranean in Cyprus...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Robert Menasse
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
In 2012, Robert Menasse’s essay Der Europäische Landbote. Die Wut der Bürger und der Friede Europas was published (trans. Craig Decker as “Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits”). ...
Copyright in Slovenia
Veröffentlicht von Miha Mazzini | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The biggest US companies ten years ago were ExxonMobil, General Electric, Microsoft, Citigroup and Bank of America. Today they are Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Zsófia Bán
Veröffentlicht von Eszter Ureczky | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
Zsófia Bán is both a trespasser of cultural-geographical boundaries and a builder of bridges―between continents, races, genders and languages.
