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Elsewhere
What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term – one up from ‘village’, a couple down from ‘city’ – come to function as a pejorative? Pressed to describe what the phrase ‘small town’ conjures up, we’d be hard pushed to say anything positive: closed-minded; petty; provincial; parochial. On a broad European canvas, however, the rich traditions of short story writing challenge these preconceptions. The stories collected here are neither narrow-minded nor petty, nor do the minds of their protagonists contract to fit their environment. In Germany, a house-husband is slowly sent over the edge by his over-achieving neighbours. In the town of Odda in Norway, a middle-aged Morrissey fan has a matter of hours to find a girlfriend so his ailing mother can die in peace. It’s the small gestures – a white lie, the turning of a blind eye, a small kindness or a secret kept – that allow the characters of these communities to survive, to breathe easily within the seemingly tight strictures life there can impose. It’s how we do things round here...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Aliméntame
Todo un nuevo universo aflora con el nacimiento de un niño, pero también el miedo, la angustia y la incertidumbre. De modo similar a como hizo en De qué nos enamoramos, libro que se alzó con el premio del diario Jutarnji List a la mejor obra en prosa de 2005, Roman Simić vuelve a urdir esta colección de relatos mediante una cuestión, un hilo que halla su comienzo y su final en la paternidad. Un muchacho que escribe en un zoo una carta de amor que jamás enviará, un hombre que visita en un manicomio al marido de su amante, una joven que espera que el padre de su hijo no nacido no huya, una madre que evoca unas vacaciones estivales familiares diez años atrás, el verano que dio comien...
Entwicklungen in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur nach 1989
This volume traces current developments in contemporary German-language literature. It reveals that changes in the literary field have taken place since the mid-1990s that are not least connected with the establishment of a young generation of storytellers and the formation of new groups. Linked to this is, among other things, a "rehabilitation" of storytelling and an increasing plurality of forms, genres, narrative styles and media networks. Against this background, the contributions show the key thematic areas and poetological tendencies in the literature since 1989. They reveal the referential polarity of literary and media discourse: while the debate over the most recent German history remains prominent, new genres such as pop and migrant literature testify that authors increasingly make reference to sociocultural phenomena of the immediate present in its international context. German text.
Best European Fiction 2010
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles, and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed, and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today? Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur “Genius-Award” winner Aleksandar Hemon, and with dozens of edito...
junOST
Der Sammelband vereint Beiträge von Teilnehmenden an der ersten Schweizerischen Studierenden- und Doktorierendenkonferenz, die je im Fachgebiet der Slavistik organisiert worden ist und die im April 2012 in Basel auf eine Initiative von Studierenden hin stattfand. Auch in wissenschaftskommunikativer Hinsicht erschliesst das Buch Neuland: Die Beiträge sind in sechs verschiedenen Sprachen verfasst (deutsch, französisch, russisch, serbokroatisch, tschechisch, polnisch – alle mit englischen Abstracts ergänzt), die nicht nur die Forschungs- und Gegenstandssprachen der schweizerischen Slavistik darstellen, sie bilden auch die tatsächliche Sprachenvielfalt der Konferenz selbst ab. Das Buch gibt Einblick in die gegenwärtigen Tendenzen in der Slavistik und ihre nationalen Eigenheiten.
Croatia Since Independence
In der Buchreihe "S dosteurop ische Arbeiten" werden herausragende Monographien sowie Sammelb nde, Nachschlagewerke und Editionen zur Geschichte und Gegenwart S dosteuropas ver ffentlicht. Die umfassende Rezeption im In- und Ausland weist die Reihe als auf ihrem Feld f hrend aus. Die Reihe f hrt damit seit Ende 2006 auch die inhaltlichen Bereiche der fr heren "Untersuchungen zur Gegenwartskunde S dosteuropas" fort.
Croatian Nights
Destination: Croatia. This anthology brings together nine British authors whose stories are set in Croatia and the surrounding areas, and nine authors from Croatia and Serbia, many appearing in translation for the first time. Over the past five years a writers' movement called FAK - Festival of alternative Literature (Knjizevnost) - has staged large literary festivals to enormously enthusiastic audiences in Croatia and Serbia, rejecting nationalism and renewing the opportunities for exchange between these countries and the UK. The authors collected here were brought together for the first time by FAK, but they also share a dark sense of humour, a directness of expression and a willingness to...
