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European Literature Days 2016: Review of Mathias Enard
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
The two main characters, Sarah and Franz, meet at Schloss Hainfeld*, which 180 years ago was home to the Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. Both protagonists ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Ulrike Guérot
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
All those who may now feel caught in a dreadful predicament – on the one hand, wanting to embrace the necessity of a united Europe, while on the other no longer finding any arguments to defend the EU ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Peeter Helme
Veröffentlicht von Klaus Bittner | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
What happens when two people meet, look at each other and know that from now on they will stay together, that they want to talk, to be intimate and to love each other? ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Rasha Khayat
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
The favourite prediction about the ‘conflict of cultures’ is an ideological construct that quickly loses obvious meaning when applied to everyday life. Rasha Khayat concentrates on this theme in her ...
European Literature Days 2016: Review of Tim Parks
Veröffentlicht von West Camel | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2016, The Colonizers
A central image in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India is the echo experienced in the Marabar Caves...
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...
