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The angst of growth/ Die Angst vor dem Wachstum
Posted by Christian Gasser | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Comic and Graphic Novel
Picture the scene: your job is in an area that will have experienced growth – and more, and more growth – for almost twenty years. Yet, by now your biggest worry is nothing more than this boom
Murderous Identities/ الهويات القاتلة
Posted by Iman Humaydan | Permalink | filed under: 2015, The Migrants
In 2008, I came to Paris from Lebanon to attend the annual Salon du livre, for a book launch and signing of my second novel, Wild Mulberries, which had at that time just been translated into French ...
The Epic Theater of Thomas Piketty/ Epski teater Thomasa Pikettyja
Posted by Manca G. Renko | Permalink | filed under: 2015, Trends in European Contemporary Literature
Not long ago, it would have been unimaginable that one of the fastest selling out “performances” in a national theatre would be a lecture by an economist; that around a thousand people would buy ...
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 ...
