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Why does it feel so difficult to throw books away?
Posted by Sam Sedgman | Permalink | filed under: 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
Posted by Ágnes Orzóy | Permalink | filed under: 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
Posted by Karina Boehm | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
A gradual approach to the digital reader age.
EURO STARS: The Rock Stars of European Literature
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
I do like a challenge. After all, I promote European literature in the UK!
Literary criticism and the content of literature/ Die Literaturkritik und die Inhalte der Literatur
Posted by Rainer Moritz | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
In literature things are stated in such a special way that – to sum it up with a simple phrase – they cannot be re-translated one to one into our everyday language.
Hungarian Literature Online (blog in English and Hungarian)
Posted by Ágnes Orzóy | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
In 2004―that is, in ancient times, when online literary magazines were a relatively new phenomenon―I was working for the first Hungarian literary website, litera.hu. Litera pioneered a wholly new ...
ELit Dossier January to March/ Jänner bis März 2015
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink
In addition to reviews, trends and discussions about European literature, the ELit Observatory for European contemporary literature 2015 focuses on two areas of special interest – “Innovations in the ...
Is poetry the winner?/ Lyrik gewinnt?
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
The surprise was universal. Nominations for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize already left a lot of people wondering about a poetry volume being shortlisted among the year’s top five books. Now, precisely ...
Which books are hits on the web/ Welche Bücher das Web bewegen
Posted by Henning Kornfeld | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
The American doctor William Davis wouldn’t touch bread, biscuits or pizza with a barge pole: his mantra is that wheat is unhealthy and makes you fat. Davis’s message resonates in Germany: this ...
Žižek or the Spectacle of Everyday Life/ Žižek ali spektakularnost vsakdanjega
Posted by Manca G. Renko | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
