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The Swimmer
Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with distant relatives in unfamiliar cities and villages, Kalman keeps his family on the move and shuns anything resembling a home or a steady life. As their father sinks into depression, Kata and her brother create their own imaginary universe: Kata invents relationships with the people they meet during their long journey while Isti converses with the world around him-houses, stones, snow, skies. It is only in rare moments, on riverbanks and lakeshores where Kata and Isti swim with their father, that they experience a semblance of calm and happiness. Moments that feel as if life is just beginning for them . . .
As German as Kafka
Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. A hundred years previously, the intense involvement of German-Jewish intellectuals in cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity put a clear stamp on German modernism. This book is the first to unfold literary parallels between these two riveting periods in German cultural history. Drawing on the philosophical oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy, a comparative reading of texts by, amongst others, Beer-Hofmann, Kermani, Özdamar, Roth, Schnitzler, and Zaimoglu examines a variety of literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity, while developing an overarching perspective on the ‘politics of literature’.
Il nuotatore
Katalin lavora in una fabbrica a Pápa, un’antica città ungherese. Parte ogni mattina nella nebbia con la bicicletta. Il cane le corre accanto abbaiando finché lei se lo lascia dietro sullo stradone.Kata, la sua bambina, si sveglia puntualmente per andare a guardarla dalla finestra. Tira le tende da una parte e alza la mano per salutarla. Un giorno, però, Katalin esce di casa in assoluto silenzio e, senza rivolgere il minimo cenno di saluto a Kata e a Isti, l’altro figlio più piccolo, si dirige verso la stazione. Lì sale su un treno che va a ovest, in compagnia di un’amica. Giunta al confine con l’Austria scende per raggiungere clandestinamente l’Occidente, come sovente accade...
Zu Besuch bei Zsuzsa Bánk und Peter Härtling
Mehr als eine Generation trennt die Schriftstellerin Zsuzsa Bánk und den Schriftsteller Peter Härtling voneinander. Und doch verbindet sie eine ganze Menge miteinander. Nicht nur, dass sie in Frankfurt am Main und er sozusagen in einem Vorort von Frankfurt leben. Peter Härtling wurde während seiner Kindheit und Jugend immer wieder aus seinem Lebensumfeld vertrieben, so dass für ihn das Thema Wanderschaft zur prägenden Metapher seiner Dichtung wurde. In seinem umfangreichen Werk bestimmen von Anfang an wiederkehrende Themen - Weg, Fahrt, Ferne, Verwandlung, Vergänglichkeit, Verbannung, Verlorenheit - sowohl seine Gedichte als auch seine Romane. Zsuzsa Bánk wurde in Deutschland geboren, erlebte aber als Kind geflüchteter Ungarn, die nach dem ungarischen Volksaufstand 1956 nach Deutschland gekommen waren, auch, was der Verlust der Heimat für Menschen bedeuten kann. Was Vertreibung, Flucht, Integration in einem zunächst fremden Land betrifft, haben beide erfahren und machen es zum Thema ihrer Bücher. Insofern ist die Beschäftigung mit ihnen - abgesehen von anderen Aspekten innerhalb ihres jeweiligen Werkes - hochaktuell.
How to Gain the Most from Structural Conditionality of IMF-Supported Programs
Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing from the IMF. Taking stock of program conditions and their implementation, this paper finds that conditionality focuses on fiscal, monetary and financial issues—areas where IMF expertise is strong—and shies away from structural areas such as labor or product market reforms. Hence, tackling deep-rooted structural issues during IMF-supported programs often remained elusive. To ensure countries gain most from IMF conditionality, the paper outlines an evaluation matrix for prioritizing and designing structural reforms, and applies it to case studies.
Global Ethnography
"At last world.com meets ethnography.eudora. This book shows how ethnography can have a global reach and a global relevance, its humanistic and direct methods actually made more not less relevant by recent developments in global culture and economy. Globalisation is not a singular, unilinear process, fatalistically unfolding towards inevitable ends: it entails gaps, contradictions, counter-tendencies, and marked unevenness. And just as capital flows more freely around the globe, so do human ideas and imaginings, glimpses of other possible futures. These elements all interact in really existing sites, situations and localities, not in outer space or near-earth orbit. Unprefigurably, they are ...
What Do I Read Next?
By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.Each entry describes a separate book, listing everything readers need to know to make selections. Arranged by author within six genre sections, detailed entries provide: Title Publisher and publication dateSeriesNames and descriptions of charactersTime period and geographical settingReview citationsStory typesBrief plot summarySelected other books by the authorSimilar books by different authorsAuthor, title, series, character name, character description, time period, geographic setting and genre/sub-genre indexes are included to facilitate research.
Ten Years, Realized Works
The work of EEA, as presented in this retrospective of the past 10 years of its work, covers the full architectural gamut including public, educational, residential, interior design, exhibition design and the design of furniture and objects.
Riverbank Filtration: Understanding Contaminant Biogeochemistry and Pathogen Removal
Riverbank filtration is widely used in Europe and to some extent in the United States for the public water supply. It is a cost-effective and realisable treatment technology in which horizontal and vertical wells pump a mixture of ground water and induced surface water from a river. This book describes the biogeochemical issues involved in contaminant removal from surface water and the mechanisms of pathogen removal. Specifically, the following three points are considered: *The role of hydrogeological and well construction factors in the development of redox zones at bank filtration sites and the resulting impacts on contaminant removal. *The mechanisms of pathogen removal, including the processes, colloid filtration, die-away, decay, and predation. *The status of riverbank filtration processes in NATO partner countries.
