Beiträge
Leif Randt and Jaroslav Rudiš - Designed Feelings, Abandoned Worlds
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Elif Shafak
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
This year’s “Austrian Book Trade Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action” (Ehrenpreis des Österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln) will be presented during the ...
WRITER IN EXILE
Veröffentlicht von Saša Ilić | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” This sentence by Franz Kafka could open any story on literature and exile, ...
ELit Book Tip: Seed by Joanna Walsh
Veröffentlicht von West Camel | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Enard and Karahasan Two Contrasting and Complementary Views
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Mathias Enard and Dževad Karahasan present a sympathetic, albeit contrasting view of the Orient and of Oriental culture. This is one reason why they have been frequent guests at the European ...
ELit Book Tip: Dóra Elekes, Mother and the Ginns
Veröffentlicht von Mark Baczoni | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
In this book, the Ginns come out of a bottle and never go back in. Instead, they go into the narrator’s alcoholic mother, taking control of her totally. Dóra Elekes’ book is about that experience ...
ELit Book Tip: Maryam Madjidi, Marx et la poupée
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
For a long time, Maryam Madjidi, the Franco-Iranian writer, didn’t know how she should narrate her “Persian stories”. Last autumn, the 37-year-old author turned them into a novel. Marx et la poupée ...
ELit Book Tip: Lana Lux’s Novel "Kukolka"
Veröffentlicht von Lena Gorelik | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
When you read enthralling books, there is always this moment when the novel is no longer just a novel. Take for example reading on a train: you look up in amazement to notice that you just missed the ...
Visuality, Non-Agency and Found Footage in heves: New Trends in contemporary Turkish Poetry (2003-2010)
Veröffentlicht von Efe Murad | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2017
Experimentation is not something new in poetry and cannot only be confined to the early 20th Century European avant-garde. Every experiment in different literary contexts is a new experience. What ...
ELit Book Tip: Dominique Goblets Graphic Novel "Pretending is Lying"
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
In “Pretending is Lying” the Belgian comic artist Dominique Goblet illustrates the abysses of her childhood and comes up with some striking images.
