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Best European Fiction 2010

Best European Fiction 2010

Jean-Philippe Toussaint
3.7/5 ( ratings)
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Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles, and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed, and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today?

Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur “Genius-Award” winner Aleksandar Hemon, and with dozens of editorial, media, and programming partners in the U.S., UK, and Europe, the Best European Fiction series will be a window onto what’s happening right now in literary scenes throughout Europe, where the next Kafka, Flaubert, or Mann is waiting to be discovered.



List of contributors

Preface: Zadie Smith

Introduction: Aleksandar Hemon

Ornela Vorpsi : from The Country Where No One Ever Dies

Antonio Fian : from While Sleeping

Peter Terrin : from "The Murderer"

Jean-Philippe Toussaint : "Zidane's Melancholy"

Igor Stiks : "At the Sarajevo Market"

Georgi Gospodinov : "And All Turned Moon"

Neven Usumovic : "Veres"

Naja Marie Aidt : "Bulbjerg"

Elo Viiding : "Foreign Women"

Juhani Brander : from Extinction

Christine Montalbetti : "Hotel Komaba Eminence"

George Konrád : "Jeremiah's Terrible Tale"

Steinar Bragi : "The Sky Over Thingvellir"

Julian Gough : "The Orphan and the Mob"

Ornaní Choileáin : "Camino"

Giulio Mozzi : "Carlo Doesn't Know How to Read"

Inga Abele : "Ants and Bumblebees"

Mathias Ospelt : "Deep In the Snow"

Giedra Radvilaviciute˙ : "The Allure of the Text"

Goce Smilevski : "Fourteen Little Gustavs"

Stephan Enter : "Resistance"

Jon Fosse : "Waves of Stone"

Michal Witkowski : "Didi"

Valter Hugo Mãe : "dona malva and senhor josé ferreiro"

Cosmin Manolache : "Three Hundred Cups"

Victor Pelevin : "Friedmann Space"

David Albahari : "The Basilica in Lyon"

Peter Kristúfek : from The Prompter

Andrej Blatnik : from You Do Understand?

Julián Ríos : "Revelation on the Boulevard of Crime"

Josep Fonalleras : "Noir in Five Parts and an Epilogue"

Peter Stamm : "Ice Moon"

Deborah Levy : from Swimming Home

Alasdair Gray : "The Ballad of Ann Bonny"

Penny Simpson : "Indigo's Mermaid"
Language
English
Pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Release
December 15, 2009
ISBN
1564785432
ISBN 13
9781564785435

Best European Fiction 2010

Jean-Philippe Toussaint
3.7/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles, and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed, and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today?

Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of what will become an annual anthology of stories from across Europe. Edited by acclaimed Bosnian novelist and MacArthur “Genius-Award” winner Aleksandar Hemon, and with dozens of editorial, media, and programming partners in the U.S., UK, and Europe, the Best European Fiction series will be a window onto what’s happening right now in literary scenes throughout Europe, where the next Kafka, Flaubert, or Mann is waiting to be discovered.



List of contributors

Preface: Zadie Smith

Introduction: Aleksandar Hemon

Ornela Vorpsi : from The Country Where No One Ever Dies

Antonio Fian : from While Sleeping

Peter Terrin : from "The Murderer"

Jean-Philippe Toussaint : "Zidane's Melancholy"

Igor Stiks : "At the Sarajevo Market"

Georgi Gospodinov : "And All Turned Moon"

Neven Usumovic : "Veres"

Naja Marie Aidt : "Bulbjerg"

Elo Viiding : "Foreign Women"

Juhani Brander : from Extinction

Christine Montalbetti : "Hotel Komaba Eminence"

George Konrád : "Jeremiah's Terrible Tale"

Steinar Bragi : "The Sky Over Thingvellir"

Julian Gough : "The Orphan and the Mob"

Ornaní Choileáin : "Camino"

Giulio Mozzi : "Carlo Doesn't Know How to Read"

Inga Abele : "Ants and Bumblebees"

Mathias Ospelt : "Deep In the Snow"

Giedra Radvilaviciute˙ : "The Allure of the Text"

Goce Smilevski : "Fourteen Little Gustavs"

Stephan Enter : "Resistance"

Jon Fosse : "Waves of Stone"

Michal Witkowski : "Didi"

Valter Hugo Mãe : "dona malva and senhor josé ferreiro"

Cosmin Manolache : "Three Hundred Cups"

Victor Pelevin : "Friedmann Space"

David Albahari : "The Basilica in Lyon"

Peter Kristúfek : from The Prompter

Andrej Blatnik : from You Do Understand?

Julián Ríos : "Revelation on the Boulevard of Crime"

Josep Fonalleras : "Noir in Five Parts and an Epilogue"

Peter Stamm : "Ice Moon"

Deborah Levy : from Swimming Home

Alasdair Gray : "The Ballad of Ann Bonny"

Penny Simpson : "Indigo's Mermaid"
Language
English
Pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Release
December 15, 2009
ISBN
1564785432
ISBN 13
9781564785435

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