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An important discussion in Hungary: Novels on Holocaust, Part 2
Posted by Ágnes Orzóy | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
Published in English in 1989 by Macmillan, János Nyíri’s Battlefields and Playgrounds immediately became a success in the UK. However, this book is all but unknown in Hungary.
The consequence of history: European poetry as representation of the modern nation
Posted by Steven J. Fowler | Permalink
Every nation’s literature contains within it multiplicities. Not only are definitions of these traditions based on approximations, that which has been recorded, assigned, that which has had the ...
Provided they still exist, will tomorrow’s libraries resemble Apple Stores? / Si elles existent encore, les bibliothèques du futur ressembleront-elles à des Apple Stores?
Posted by Jacques Pezet | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
What are the libraries of tomorrow going to look like? Last month, during a dinner, I debated the question with Michael, an architecture student at Gothenburg University.
Rainald Goetz: Reactions to the Georg Büchner Prize/ Reaktionen auf den Georg-Büchner-Preis
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
German-speaking countries have no shortage of literature prizes and scholarships. When sales trends for non-mainstream literature are falling, not rising, such awards are an increasingly important ...
What is Austrian about Austrian literature?/ Was ist österreichisch an der österreichischen Literatur?
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
In Austria, an audience attuned to culture gets indignant if Austrian writers are treated as German writers. This happens now and again – I last noticed it in Eva Menasse’s case in an anthology about ...
Anyone who doesn’t feel good should go/ Wer sich nicht wohlfühlt, soll gehen/ من لم يشعر بالراحة في مكانه فليغادر نجم والي
Posted by Najem Wali | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
One of the magnificent quotes from Nobel Prize Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa about writers and exile is, “Anyone who doesn’t feel good, where he is, should go!”
Fahrenheit 451
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
The ‘Perlentaucher’ website recently published a text by Wolfram Schütte “On the Future of Reading”. It was a flamboyant plea for a critical online journal that could be symbolically known as ...
My experience of migration was prolonged/ Das Auswandern hat sich hingezogen
Posted by Ilma Rakusa | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
My experience of migration was prolonged: from my birthplace Rimavská Sobota, the journey led to Budapest, then to Ljubljana and onwards to the divided city of Trieste and in January 1951 to Zurich.
Tim Krohn’s Human Emotions/ Tim Krohns menschliche Regungen
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature, Innovations in the Digital Field
In contemporary music the digital revolution has resulted in a heavy decline in profits from CD sales. Musicians must therefore find new incomes sources, for instance, with live appearances. ...
ELit Dossier April to June/ April bis Juni 2015
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: 2015, ELit Dossiers
