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literalab | Category Archive | Essays
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Central European literary life. RSS feed for this archive. Arthur Eloesser in B O D Y. The Berliner wants to be loved now too, and would gladly trade the familiar admiration of serious folk for the affections of the international idlers’ colony that seeks, in London and especially in Paris, a climate for pleasures high and low. I find this pandering and chasing after people undignified, and anyway it leads to […]. Marek Krajewski’s Dark Conjuring Act. The Laboratory: Reading the Eastern Bloc. An essay on...
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POLISH LITERATURE SINCE 1989: November 2011
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POLISH LITERATURE SINCE 1989. Conference on Polish Literature since 1989 to be held at University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies 10-11 November 2011, with introductory symposium dedicated to Czesław Miłosz on 9 November (evening event). Supported by the Polish Cultural Institute, London (co-organizers), The Book Institute, Kraków, the Zdanowicz Fund, Trinity College Cambridge, and the SSEES Centre for the Study of Central Europe. Monday, November 07, 2011. Mindaugas Kvietkaus...
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Celebrating a lost Czech novel | literalab
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Central European literary life. Celebrating a lost Czech novel. Celebrating a lost Czech novel. On June 18 New York’s Czech Center will be hosting the release. Of Heda Margolius Kovály’s novel,. Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street. Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) is most famous for her memoir. Under A Cruel Star A Life in Prague 1941 1968. Check out (Ha, no pun! All the event information here. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). You are commenting...
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New and Novel | literalab
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Central European literary life. From fairy tales retold with some irreverent twists, along with scenes from the Macedonian past, present and unreality to two very different worlds of implicit and explicit violence on either end of Soviet domination one in Dagestan after the fall of communism, the other in newly occupied Prague in the 50s. Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street. By Heda Margolius Kovály. Translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker. Published by Soho Press. Read more about the book here. Read ...
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literalab | Category Archive | Books
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Central European literary life. RSS feed for this archive. Literary roundup: International Man Booker Teffi. The Vegetarian by Han Kang has awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. The novel was translated into English by Deborah Smith and published by Portobello Books. The author and translator are each awarded a prize of 25,000 as well as a trophy. If you haven’t read this novel yet you absolutely should. It’s amazing. […]. Two Mexican novels, one dealing with highly relevant contemporary subje...
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literalab | Category Archive | Books on Film
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Central European literary life. Archive Books on Film. RSS feed for this archive. Viktor Shklovsky for Kids. Seminal Russian formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky has been back in the limelight as of late due to a slew of translations by Shushan Avagyan published and forthcoming from Dalkey Archive, including Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar and Energy of Delusion, a pair of works of literary theory, as well as the more essayistic/historical […]. The futility of filming Kafka. In the 1974 film ...
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literalab | Category Archive | Saturday European Fiction
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Central European literary life. Archive Saturday European Fiction. RSS feed for this archive. Marie Sizun in B O D Y. Another work of French writing in Saturday European Fiction with the debut of Marie Sizun in English as her novel Her Father’s Daughter is about to be published by Peirine Press in a translation by Adriana Hunter. Marie Sizun wrote her first novel at 65 years old and has gone on to publish seven more […]. Jean-Luc Godard in B O D Y. Jedlicka in B O D Y. Faruk Sehic in B O D Y. I killed se...
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Juraj Bindzar in B O D Y | literalab
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Central European literary life. Juraj Bindzar in B O D Y. Juraj Bindzar in B O D Y. From writer Juraj Bindzár’s novel. Dance With The Dead Maidservant. Read more Saturday European Fiction. Photo – Servant Girl in Blue by Chaim Soutine, 1934. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Tags: B O D Y. You are comment...
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Alisa Ganieva in New York | literalab
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Central European literary life. Alisa Ganieva in New York. Alisa Ganieva in New York. Alisa Ganieva will be in New York City on Thursday, June 18 for a launch of her newly translated novel. The Mountain and the Wall. The event is sponsored by Read Russia and will involve a discussion between the author and translator, publisher and academic Ronald Meyer at Book Culture on 112. St The novel is translated from the Russian by Carol Apollonio and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. The Mountain and The Wall.
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literalab | Category Archive | Book Reviews
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Central European literary life. RSS feed for this archive. Literary roundup: International Man Booker Teffi. The Vegetarian by Han Kang has awarded the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. The novel was translated into English by Deborah Smith and published by Portobello Books. The author and translator are each awarded a prize of 25,000 as well as a trophy. If you haven’t read this novel yet you absolutely should. It’s amazing. […]. Literalab’s Best Books of 2014: McSweeney’s 46. 1 The Devil’s Workshop ...
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