Writing Europe : : What is European about the Literatures of Europe? Essays from 33 European Countries / / ed. by Ilma Rakuša, Ursula Keller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Bergsson, Guòbergur,; Bitov, Andrei,; Brink, Hans Maarten van den,; Chwin, Stefan,; Cărtărescu, Mircea,; Debeljak, Aleš,; Donner, Jörn,; Fortunato, Mario,; Fuentes, Eugenio,; Grøndahl, Jens Christian,; Grünbein, Durs,; Hodrová, Daniela,; Ioannides, Panos,; Ivanova, Mirela,; Jorge, Lídia,; Karahasan, Dževad,; Keller, Ursula,; Lubonja, Fatos,; Muschg, Adolf,; Nádas, Péter,; Pollen, Geir,; Rakusa, Ilma,; Rouaud, Jean,; Schindel, Robert,; Swartz, Richard,; Themelis, Nikos,; Tode, Emil,; Toussaint, Jean-Philippe,; Toíbín, Colm,; Ugrešić, Dubravka,; Velikić, Dragan,; Venclova, Tomas,; Zāltīe, Māra,; Özdamar, Emine Sevgi,; Štrpka, Ivan Š,
• HerausgeberIn: Keller, Ursula,; Rakuša, Ilma,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)

What do we mean by Europe? Thirty-three renowned authors from 33 European countries attempt an answer-in serious, ironic, skeptical, or optimistic tones. Their essays, written for the symposium held at the Literaturhaus Hamburg in 2003, reflect the astonishing diversity of European cultures. Not onl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Writing Europe
• Impressions and Conversations during the Intervals
• Europe Untitled
• The Literary Hero as Hero
• Language and Terror
• Europe Has the Shape of My Brain
• The Nursery School Teacher from Tversk Street
• Concentric Circles of Identity
• Europe from the Fringe
• Europe?
• The Western Bloc
• Notes of an Escapist
• Europa’s Lovers
• Woven Into the Web
• Europe in My Prose and My Theatrical Work
• Europe — One Way of Reading It
• A Sort of Huge Portugal
• Europe Writes in Time
• Between the Local and the Universal
• Europe or “Eleuthera, City of the Mnemosyne”
• In the Intimacy of Literary Writing
• Guest Faces
• On the European Ingredient in the Text
• In Memory of Ernst Wiechert
• “We’re All Right.” Europe’s Influence on My Writing
• Oh, Children Smeared with Honey and with Blood
• The Light Falls on Me
• Looking for a Widened Self-Awareness
• Europe, a Blot of Ink
• The Future of Europe
• You Are Leaving the American Sector
• European Literature as a Eurovision Song Contest
• B-Europe
• What Can Lithuania Give to Present-Day Europe
• Unfinished Thoughts