Writing Europe
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Writing Europe

What is European about the Literatures of Europe? Essays from 33 European Countries

  1. 372 pages
  2. English
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Writing Europe

What is European about the Literatures of Europe? Essays from 33 European Countries

About this book

What do we mean by Europe? Thirty-three renowned authors from 33 European countries attempt an answer-in serious, ironic, skeptical, or optimistic tones. Their essays, written for the symposium held at the Literaturhaus Hamburg in 2003, reflect the astonishing diversity of European cultures. Not only are the style and experience of the individual authors remarkable for their distinctiveness, but their perspectives and views also appear to have little in common-at first glance.

The editors have created a unique literary project, a milestone in the vitally necessary cultural discourse about Europe.

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Geir 
Pollen
Is 
it 
not 
the 
destiny 
of 
the 
European 
novel 
to
see 
to 
it 
that 
such 
existential 
questions 
on 
the
dignity 
and 
potential 
of 
the 
individual 
human
being 
are 
constantly 
asked, 
even 
when 
they
are 
felt 
to 
be 
shocking 
and 
outrageous?
© 
Jo 
Michael
Geir 
Pollen
Norway
Born 
in 
1953, 
Geir 
Pollen 
studied 
Scandinavian
languages 
and 
literature, 
Russian, 
and 
German. 
He 
taught
at 
a 
grammar 
school, 
held 
courses 
in 
creative 
writing, 
and
translated 
the 
works 
of 
Yves 
Bonnefoy 
and 
W. 
G. 
Sebald.
From 
1989 
until 
1995 
he 
was 
a 
member 
of 
the 
literary
council 
of 
the 
Norwegian 
Writers’ 
Association 
and 
since
2001 
he 
has 
been 
chairman 
of 
the 
Association. 
Geir
Pollen 
has 
published 
three 
poetry 
volumes 
and 
four
novels. 
His 
works 
have 
been 
translated 
into 
German,
Danish 
and 
Serbian. 
He 
lives 
and 
works 
in 
Oslo.

Table of contents

  1. cover
  2. Front matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Ursula Keller – Germany, Writing Europe
  5. Ilma Rakusa – Switzerland, Impressions and Conversations during the Intervals
  6. Guðbergur Bergsson – Island, Europe Untitled
  7. Andrei Bitov – Russia, The Literary Hero as Hero
  8. Hans Maarten van den Brink – The Netherlands, Language and Terror
  9. Mircea Cărtărescu – Romania, Europe Has the Shape of My Brain
  10. Stefan Chwin – Poland, The Nursery School Teacher from Tversk Street
  11. Aleš Debeljak – Slovenia, Concentric Circles of Identity
  12. Jörn Donner – Finnland, Europe from the Fringe
  13. Mario Fortunato – Italy, Europe?
  14. Eugenio Fuentes – Spain, The Western Bloc
  15. Jens Christian Grøndahl – Denmark, Notes of an Escapist
  16. Durs Grünbein – Germany, Europa’s Lovers
  17. Daniela Hodrová – Czech Republic, Woven Into the Web
  18. Panos Ioannides – Cyprus, Europe in My Prose and My Theatrical Work
  19. Mirela Ivanova – Bulgaria, Europe — One Way of Reading It
  20. Lídia Jorge – Portugal, A Sort of Huge Portugal
  21. Dževad Karahasan – Bosnia, Europe Writes in Time
  22. Fatos Lubonja – Albania, Between the Local and the Universal
  23. Adolf Muschg – Switzerland, Europe or “Eleuthera, City of the Mnemosyne”
  24. Péter Nádas – Hungary, In the Intimacy of Literary Writing
  25. Emine Sevgi Özdamar – Turkey, Guest Faces
  26. Geir Pollen – Norway, On the European Ingredient in the Text
  27. Jean Rouaud – France, In Memory of Ernst Wiechert
  28. Robert Schindel – Austria, “We’re All Right.” Europe’s Influence on My Writing
  29. Ivan Štrpka – Slovakia, Oh, Children Smeared with Honey and with Blood
  30. Richard Swartz – Sweden, The Light Falls on Me
  31. Nikos Themelis – Greece, Looking for a Widened Self-Awareness
  32. Emil Tode – Estonia, Europe, a Blot of Ink
  33. Colm Toíbín – Ireland, The Future of Europe
  34. Jean-Philippe Toussaint – Belgium, You Are Leaving the American Sector
  35. Dubravka Ugrešić – Croatia, European Literature as a Eurovision Song Contest
  36. Dragan Velikić – Serbia, B-Europe
  37. Tomas Venclova – LithuaniaWhat Can Lithuania, Give to Present-Day Europe
  38. Mara Zalite - Latvia, Unfinished Thoughts