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ELit Book Tip: Aude Picault: “Ideal Standard”
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2018
Relationships, sex, women’s self-determination and disappointments – the French comic book author Aude Picault covers these topics in her graphic novel “Ideal Standard”.
Famous and unknown
Veröffentlicht von Katja Petrovic | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2018
Leïla Slimani, Nathacha Appanah, Atiq Rahimi … they have all come from the Francophone world and are leading writers in France. In their native countries, however, they are not yet as well known, ...
Elit Booktip : Marion Messina, Faux Départ
Veröffentlicht von Léa Cassagnau | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Coming-of-age stories seem to be enjoying a revival. Today, however, education means studying at a university, writing CVs and motivation letters, jobbing under fixed-term contracts and, for those ...
ELit Book-Tip: An Old Man on the Moors
Veröffentlicht von Rainer Moritz | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Edward St Aubyn’s “King Lear” Adaptation: “Dunbar und seine Töchter” In 2016 and to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the Hogarth Shakespeare Project was launched. ...
ELit Book Tip: Ulli Lust: “How I Tried to Be a Good Person”
Veröffentlicht von Christian Gasser | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Ulli Lust, in her mid-twenties, an aspiring artist in Vienna, is in love with two men: Georg, the 20-year-old actor, with whom things have fizzled out in bed; and Kimata, the Nigerian refugee, with ...
ELit Book Tip: Zsófia Bán, Night School
Veröffentlicht von Mark Baczoni | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Zsófia Bán’s first prose work, Night School, is being translated by Jim Tucker for upcoming publication in the US. It’s rather an unusual work, defined by its dark humour and subversive blurring of ...
Camenisch and Grigorcea: Poetic Masterworks with Tantalizing Ruses
Veröffentlicht von Beat Mazenauer | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Arno Camenisch and Dana Grigorcea are two leading voices for young Swiss literature. They both enjoy a good reception with the audience, and this is also because of their communicative appeal. On the ...
Twelve Winning Authors 2017: European Union Prize for Literature
Veröffentlicht von West Camel | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
As I work my way through an anthology – any anthology really – I almost always find myself struck less by the individual stories I’m reading and more by the overall picture that is painted; the set ...
Literaturhaus Europa: Literarische Trends 2017
Veröffentlicht von Walter Grond | Permalink | abgelegt unter: Tipp, 2017
Literaturhaus Europa präsentiert zum dritten Mal eine pointierte und kurzweilige Zusammenfassung der Jahrestätigkeit des Observatoriums der Europäischen Gegenwartsliteratur – ausgewählte Vorträge, ...