Literary Perspectives: Austria
This is why I love Eurozine: Though still routinely referred to as Germans, Austrian novelists have experienced a recent run of critical and commercial success. The “difficult” prose of the past has been replaced by a focus on story-telling, with women writers producing no less interesting work in the genre ...
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Eurozine on the Estonian Novel
Eurozine’s marvelous Literary Perspectives series visits Estonia: While the Great Estonian Novel has yet to be written, writes poet and critic Märt Väljataga, the range of fiction in Estonian is sufficiently wide to serve as an indicator of the hopes and fears, anxieties and obsessions, of post-communist Estonia. ...
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The conglomeration of the French publishing industry
André Schiffrin in Eurozine on the (all-too-familiar) recent history of the French publishing industry. The problem that arises in all these countries is: when you have bought a company that makes two or three per cent you want it to make ten or twelve per cent. Hachette wants ten per cent; Editis wants fifteen, as does ...
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The re-transnationalization of literary criticism
Carl Henrik Fredriksson argues for a re-transnationalization of literary criticism in Eurozine, and recalls the almost-impossible-to-believe, and not-so-distant, past of literary criticism in Europe: In fact, during some periods and in some places, the discussion of foreign literature was so extensive and lively that it ...
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Eurozine on 'Air Raid' Literature
Eurozine has an article which surveys German novels that reflect the effects of the Allied bombing campaign in WWII., and attempts to address the questions Sebald posed in Air War and Literature: No major postwar German novel dealt with the Allied bombing of German cities in World War II: during the Cold War, the echo ...
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