Blog
Wöchentliche Blogeinträge (inter)nationaler AutorInnen
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.
ELit Book Tip: OCTOBER: THE STORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BY CHINA MIÉVILLE
Veröffentlicht von West Camel | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
China Miéville’s fiction output outnumbers his nonfiction by about three to one. So, while his political and academic credentials ...
ELit Book Tip: Iris Wolff’s “So tun, als ob es regnet” – A Real Discovery
Veröffentlicht von Rainer Moritz | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Those with abundant reading material for professional reasons know the sense of fatigue and occasional slight disappointment along ...
A Form of Inner Exile: The poetry of Péter Závada
Veröffentlicht von Mark Baczoni | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Poetry is a form of inner exile, the poet Péter Závada recently told me. We were talking about his first two collections...
ELit Book Tip: Eric Lambé and Philippe de Pierpont "Paysage après la bataille"
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
It’s not surprising, but then it’s totally surprising that “Paysage après la bataille” was awarded the best comic of the year prize in 2016 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival...
CrimeFest 2017 – an Editor’s view of the International Crime Fiction Convention
Veröffentlicht von West Camel | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
There is a ‘no spoilers’ rule at CrimeFest. I would say it’s unwritten, as you won’t find it in any of the convention’s literature. However, during a panel she was moderating, crime writer Caro ...
