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The House with the Stained-Glass Window
"Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact . . . an important new voice in Polish literature" OLGA TOKARCZUK, Nobel Prize-winning author of Flights "Remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century . . . A novel of life and survival across the ages" PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street Amid the turbulence of 20th century Lviv, meet four generations of women from the same fractious family, living beneath one roof and each striving to find their way across the decades of upheaval in an ever-shifting city. First there is Great-Granma, tiny and terrifying, shaped by a life of exile, hards...
The Flying Dutchman
Some time in the 1970s, Konstantin Alpheyev, a well-known Russian musicologist, finds himself in trouble with the KGB, the Russian secret police, after the death of his girlfriend, for which one of their officers may have been responsible. He has to flee from the city and to go into hiding. He rents an old house located on the bank of a big Russian river, and lives there like a recluse observing nature and working on his new book about Wagner. The house, a part of an old barge, undergoes strange metamorphoses rebuilding itself as a medieval schooner, and Alpheyev begins to identify himself with the Flying Dutchman. Meanwhile, the police locate his new whereabouts and put him under surveillance. A chain of strange events in the nearby village makes the police officer contact the KGB, and the latter figure out who the new tenant of the old house actually is.
The Polyglot Lovers
Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners.
Auf den Ruinen der Imperien
Durch den Zerfall der großen Imperien des 20. Jahrhunderts entstanden in Mittelosteuropa einige Grenzräume wie Galizien, die Bukowina, das Banat, die Walachei und die ungarische Provinz. Sie zeichneten sich dadurch aus, dass sie für jeweils bestimmte historische Phasen eine gewisse Vielfalt an Ethnien, Religionen und Kulturen bargen, die nebeneinander und auch miteinander existieren konnten, dann aber aufgrund hegemonialgeschichtlicher Entwicklungen zerteilt und neu geprägt wurden. Die Alltagspraxis, die sich hieraus ergab, war zumeist eine konfliktreiche, sie lässt sich aber auch als ein durchaus erprobter (Lebens-)Zusammenhang beschreiben. Karl Schlögel hat von solchen Übergangsräu...
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe charts the intellectual landscape of twentieth century East-Central Europe under the unifying theme of 'precariousness' as a mode of historical existence. Caught between empires, often marked by catastrophic historic events and grand political failures, the countries of East-Central Europe have for a long time developed a certain intellectual self-representation, a culture that not only helps them make some sense of such misfortunes, but also protects them somehow from a collapse into nihilism. An interdisciplinary study of this sophisticated culture of survival and endurance has been long overdue. Not only is it charming and w...
High Albania
In High Albania, Victorian anthropologist and travel writer M (Mary) Edith Durham presents a vivid and fascinating insight into the culture, customs, people, and the lands of Northern Albania as it was in the early 20th century.
Nowolipie Street
Hen's memoir about growing up in a middle-class Jewish family in Warsaw during the 1920's and 30's through the first few months of the German occupation.
The Books of Jacob
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” “Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post “Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club “Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, TIME, THE NEW YORKER, AND NPR The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and...
In the Closet of the Vatican
The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded "[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic Reporter The arrival of Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book's revelations of clericalism, hypocrisy, cover-ups and widespread homosexuality in the highest echelons of the Vatican provoked questions that the most senior Vatican officials--and the Pope himself--were forced to act upon; it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, almost a year after the book's first publication, Frédéric Martel reflects in a new foreword on the effect th...
Nachbeben einer Zäsur in der interkulturellen Literatur und Kulturpraxis
1989/90 markiert den Beginn einer neuen politischen, geschichtlichen und gesellschaftlichen Ära in Europa. Je nach geopolitischem Blickwinkel wird dieser unterschiedlich akzentuiert und mit verschiedenen Prozessen und Ereignissen in Verbindung gesetzt. Als wichtige Akteur*innen des Diskurses zur Neuordnung und zugleich als Kultur(ver)mittelnde innerhalb Europas treten u. a. Kulturschaffende und die Schriftsteller*innen auf, die aus dem mittel- bzw. osteuropäischen Raum stammen und deren Texte der interkulturellen Literatur zugeordnet werden können. Die Beiträger*innen diskutieren interdisziplinär, wie die relevanten Themen der Gegenwart, wie etwa literarische und außerliterarische Repr...
