In the summer of 2018, an unusual debut novel was published in the United States. It was signed by Delia Owens (b. 1949), who had...
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Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures: A...
„These splendid essays by Rodica Grigore – that restore Romanian literature to a place of honour alongside Latin American...
In the Maze of Fiction
Born in Lund in 1973, Lina Wolff is one of the iconic voices of contemporary Swedish literature, the onset of her career having...
The Game of Identities
“Strictly speaking, Fernando Pessoa does not exist.” These are the words of Alvaro de Campos, a naval engineer, a consumer of...
So Close to the Sky…
„All day long God roams the world, But every evening He returns home, to Rwanda…” (Scholastique Mukasonga, Notre-Dame du Nil)...
The Days and Adventures of a Marvellous Tomcat
„Because we are made like this. We need to believe in better.” Grigoriy Sluzhitel, „Savely’s Days” Having been...
On Silence and Loneliness
What happens to a couple when each of the partners keeps buried deep down old secrets that they cannot or do not know how to...
Reminiscence and Exile
Unexpectedly, Faysal hears the news of a death in his family. So that he immediately leaves Europe for his hometown, Jabalayn...
The Snow Inferno
Few people probably still know what the terrifying „Children’s Blizzard” (also known as the „Schoolchildren’s Blizzard”) that...
Yaa Gyasi. Far from and close to Africa
Two girls, siblings by their mother, are born on Africa’s Gold Coast just years apart but under essentially different...
The History of a Secret
„How strange the country we lived in was! Every family had its secret, a story of its own!” This is the bitter conclusion that...
Finding One’s Identity
„I don’t believe the way they believe. I don’t live the way they live. I don’t love the way they love.” (Marguerite Yourcenar)...
Breathing
Breathing through the dark Underexposure through evidence What is holding you back is the same that pushed you fast forward...
On Music and Loneliness
Alongside other writers of the new generation in Japanese literature such as Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, Banana Yoshimoto...
The silence is silent
I listened very carefully and I could hear the reverb of something that wasn’t there anymore. Your body is the only room you...
People and Rivers…
„My work consists in writing until stones become lighter than water. I do not write novels, I do not tell stories, I do not claim...
Discovering the consistency
There were no layers, but an interrupted line. The sensation of being carried away and at the same time of bracing against the...
Girls, Movies, Books
Born in Barcelona in 1961, Clara Usón is one of the iconic voices of contemporary Spanish fiction, her novels (from „Noches de...