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Lovely Ljubljana
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Slovenia may have closed its borders to international refugees, but it’s remarkably open to international literature.
ELit Blog‘s Review
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Peter Handke and His Reception in the German-speaking world / Über die Peter-Handke-Rezeption im deutschen Sprachraum
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
First, somebody has to match his record: Peter Handke has been in the spotlight of German-speaking literary criticism for fifty years. For every book, every play and every interview, even.
What does Europe mean today?/ Was bedeutet Europa heute?
Posted by Katja Petrovic | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
What does Europe mean today? In light of the refugee crisis and financial collapse and the impending risk of failure of the European political project, booksellers from 19 European countries ...
ELit blog‘s review
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
Mediterranean Europe/ Das mediterrane Europa
Posted by Walter Grond | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
In 1993 when the conflict was at its height in Yugoslavia, American political scientist Samuel Huntington published an essay that provoked not just heated controversy and opposition, but was also to ...
A way out that is non-extant
Posted by Aleš Šteger | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
The predictions from the political prophets of doom have proven sadly accurate. The EU was abolished several months ago.
Variations on a Theme
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
There’s an unusual series of events happening at the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. I was there for the first one. Sitting in a large white-walled room, its vast windows overlooking a secluded ...
Shakespeare is English!
Posted by Rosie Goldsmith | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
A few years ago I presented a BBC Radio programme called ‘Shakespeare is German’ about a season of Shakespeare plays and films performed in German in the UK, organized by The Globe Theatre in London, ...
Love at First Sight: British Crime Fiction and the Germans
Posted by Judith Vonberg | Permalink | filed under: Trends in European Contemporary Literature, 2016
For two days at the end of January, ‘Brit Crime’ took over the Humboldt University in Berlin. It was the British Council’s annual literature seminar, bringing together contemporary British writers ...
