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 only are the style and experience of the individual authors remarkable for their distinctiveness, but their perspectives and views also appear to have little in common-at first glance.

The editors have created a unique literary project, a milestone in the vitally necessary cultural discourse about Europe.

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Information

Publisher

Central European University Press

Year

2004

ISBN

9786155053986

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

European Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Geir 

Pollen

Is

it

not

the

destiny 

of

the

European 

novel 

to

see

to

it

that 

such 

existential 

questions 

on

the

dignity 

and

potential 

of

the

individual 

human

being 

are

constantly 

asked, 

even 

when 

they

are

felt 

to

be

shocking 

and

outrageous?

©

Jo

Michael

Geir 

Pollen

Norway

Born 

in

1953, 

Geir 

Pollen 

studied 

Scandinavian

languages 

and

literature, 

Russian, 

and

German. 

He

taught

at

a

grammar 

school, 

held 

courses 

in

creative 

writing, 

and

translated 

the

works 

of

Yves 

Bonnefoy 

and

W.

G.

Sebald.

From 

1989

until 

1995

he

was

a

member 

of

the

literary

council 

of

the

Norwegian 

Writers’ 

Association 

and

since

2001

he

has

been 

chairman 

of

the

Association. 

Geir

Pollen 

has

published 

three 

poetry 

volumes 

and

four

novels. 

His

works 

have 

been 

translated 

into 

German,

Danish 

and

Serbian. 

He

lives 

and

works 

in

Oslo.

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Front matter
Table of Contents
Ursula Keller – Germany, Writing Europe
Ilma Rakusa – Switzerland, Impressions and Conversations during the Intervals
Guðbergur Bergsson – Island, Europe Untitled
Andrei Bitov – Russia, The Literary Hero as Hero
Hans Maarten van den Brink – The Netherlands, Language and Terror
Mircea Cărtărescu – Romania, Europe Has the Shape of My Brain
Stefan Chwin – Poland, The Nursery School Teacher from Tversk Street
Aleš Debeljak – Slovenia, Concentric Circles of Identity
Jörn Donner – Finnland, Europe from the Fringe
Mario Fortunato – Italy, Europe?
Eugenio Fuentes – Spain, The Western Bloc
Jens Christian Grøndahl – Denmark, Notes of an Escapist
Durs Grünbein – Germany, Europa’s Lovers
Daniela Hodrová – Czech Republic, Woven Into the Web
Panos Ioannides – Cyprus, Europe in My Prose and My Theatrical Work
Mirela Ivanova – Bulgaria, Europe — One Way of Reading It
Lídia Jorge – Portugal, A Sort of Huge Portugal
Dževad Karahasan – Bosnia, Europe Writes in Time
Fatos Lubonja – Albania, Between the Local and the Universal
Adolf Muschg – Switzerland, Europe or “Eleuthera, City of the Mnemosyne”
Péter Nádas – Hungary, In the Intimacy of Literary Writing
Emine Sevgi Özdamar – Turkey, Guest Faces
Geir Pollen – Norway, On the European Ingredient in the Text
Jean Rouaud – France, In Memory of Ernst Wiechert
Robert Schindel – Austria, “We’re All Right.” Europe’s Influence on My Writing
Ivan Štrpka – Slovakia, Oh, Children Smeared with Honey and with Blood
Richard Swartz – Sweden, The Light Falls on Me
Nikos Themelis – Greece, Looking for a Widened Self-Awareness
Emil Tode – Estonia, Europe, a Blot of Ink
Colm Toíbín – Ireland, The Future of Europe
Jean-Philippe Toussaint – Belgium, You Are Leaving the American Sector
Dubravka Ugrešić – Croatia, European Literature as a Eurovision Song Contest
Dragan Velikić – Serbia, B-Europe
Tomas Venclova – LithuaniaWhat Can Lithuania, Give to Present-Day Europe
Mara Zalite - Latvia, Unfinished Thoughts