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Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic: A sexed-up parable of modernity
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
As the actors took their bows, I applauded loudly, marvelling at the performance of Rory Kinnear as Josef K., a banker who is woken on his thirty-fifth birthday with the news of his arrest on ...
Book talk – yesterday and today/ Büchergespräche, gestern und heute
Posted by Lena Gorelik | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
I was sitting on the sofa chatting to two friends about books – those I’ve read and forgotten, and those I have to read and forget; about phrases that would stand the test of time, and stories that ...
Wrong and right – right or wrong?/ Falsch und richtig – richtig oder falsch? (1)
Posted by Anna Kim | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
On 5 July the following article appeared in all German-speaking newspapers:
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 2
Posted by László Szabolcs | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
The second project is called “InstaVers,” and it is an Instagram-inspired initiative which aims to present and popularize contemporary poetic texts on the internet through social media.
Digital Horizons II. – Online Popularization of Poetry, Part 1
Posted by László Szabolcs | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Innovations in the Digital Field
Poetry doesn’t sell too well nowadays. Perhaps it never did, really. Nonetheless, in the last two hundred years it was a highly popular cultural phenomenon, both for the elite and increasingly for ...
Beautiful Book Award/ Auszeichnung für schönste Bücher
Posted by Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
Every year in various European countries beautiful books are nominated for an annual award.
An important discussion in Hungary: Novels on Holocaust, Part 1
Posted by Ágnes Orzóy | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
More than political speeches and formal acts, literature has an important role in sensitizing people to the suffering of others. Rather than doing that, however, the abundance of tear-jerker movies, ...
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.
