"A forty-year-old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While
Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century—a veritable revolution in both
Scholars of modernism have long addressed how literature, painting, and music reflected the radical reconceptualization of space and time in the early twentieth century—a veritable revolution in both
Poetry. The penultimate work from renowned Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun, ANDES was written less than three years before his death in 2014. Together, the poems of ANDES are an exceptional and unusual j
"This anthology presents a selection of texts on Polish socialist realist literature, written from the early 1980s to date. They depict a comprehensive picture of this literary phenomenon: starting fr
In a junkyard on the outskirts of Prague, a painter stumbles across a mysterious wooden object. As he begins to notice the object’s strange shape reproduced in various places around the city, he reali
Winner of the Vick Foundation Novel of the Year Award in 2007, Party Headquarterstakes place in the eighties and nineties, during Bulgaria's transition from communist rule to democracy.The book—which
The war is over. Miroslav Blam walks along the former Jew Street, and he remembers. He remembers Aaron Grun, the hunchbacked watchmaker; and Eduard Fiker, a lamp merchant; and Jakob Mentele, a stove f
The book deals with the question of resistance to Soviet hegemony in Central Europe after 1968, when Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. The political and cultural situation in the context of C
When Vladan Borojevic googles the name of his father Nedeljko, a former officer in the Yugoslav People’s Army, supposedly killed in the civil war after the decay of Yugoslavia, he unexpectedly d
The story of Ekaterini is the story of one woman who lives through the 20th century in a part of the world where a long life could bear witness to four major wars. This is history seen from the women&
Poetry. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Thomas Taren. Slovenian poet Toma? ?alamun (1941-2014) is hailed as one of the most prominent poets of his generation, renowned for his impact on the E
This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors such as Witold Gombrowicz
Four innovative plays by Polish-Jewish playwright Amelia Hertz, whose work is based on bizarre and macabre episodes from history and legend. Hertz creates a tightly controlled theatre of crueltyset in
How do historical cataclysms affect the social conditioning of young people? How do individuals born in the same period come to form an identifiable "generation"? How do coming-of-ag
