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Who’s afraid of the e-Comic?/ Wer hat Angst vor dem E-Comic?
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field, Comic and Graphic Novel
The “ebook” has been the slow-burner for years at book fairs. At Comic Festivals, of course, events are organized about the e-Comic, although the approach is comparatively reserved and tentative. ...
The future of our living literature: Europe as a continent of collaboration
Veröffentlicht von Steven J. Fowler | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
I’ve said this often, and often to consternation, but I believe poetry, & literature in general, lends itself to collaboration as language does conversation, for it is in poetry we are renovating the ...
BETON INTERNATIONAL NO. 2: A GAZE INTO THE FUTURE OF EUROPE/ POGLED U BUDUĆNOST EVROPE
Veröffentlicht von Saša Ilic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
The subscribers of Tageszeitung newspaper received on 10th March this year the second issue of Beton International, a 32-page annual supplement dealing with cultural and broader social issues, ...
The angst of growth/ Die Angst vor dem Wachstum
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Comic and Graphic Novel
Picture the scene: your job is in an area that will have experienced growth – and more, and more growth – for almost twenty years. Yet, by now your biggest worry is nothing more than this boom.
Murderous Identities/ الهويات القاتلة
Veröffentlicht von Iman Humaydan | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, The Migrants
In 2008, I came to Paris from Lebanon to attend the annual Salon du livre, for a book launch and signing of my second novel, Wild Mulberries, which had at that time just been translated into French ...
The Epic Theater of Thomas Piketty/ Epski teater Thomasa Pikettyja
Veröffentlicht von Manca G. Renko | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
Not long ago, it would have been unimaginable that one of the fastest selling out “performances” in a national theatre would be a lecture by an economist; that around a thousand people would buy ...
Why does it feel so difficult to throw books away?
Veröffentlicht von Sam Sedgman | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
After recently moving house, and being confronted box by box with just how much stuff I seem to own, I found no trouble in joyfully throwing plenty of it away. But not my books. Though I threw out ...
The Stuffed Barbarian/ Kitömött barbár
Veröffentlicht von Ágnes Orzóy | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, The Migrants
In Claude Berri’s film Jean de Florette, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol, a city-dweller inherits a plot of land in fabulous Provence. Jean, played by Gérard Dépardieu, moves there with his wife ...
Sweden and the ebook/ Schweden und das E-Book
Veröffentlicht von Karina Boehm | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
A gradual approach to the digital reader age.
EURO STARS: The Rock Stars of European Literature
Veröffentlicht von Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | abgelegt unter: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
I do like a challenge. After all, I promote European literature in the UK!