Readings in Twenty-First-Century European Literatures

Arising from a 2010 conference held at St. Andrews U., Scotland, this collection of 20 contributions is organized according to the following broad themes: narrative, genre, and form after postmodernism; history, fiction, and testimony; human relations in the 21st century; and intercultural translation and reception. Among the authors whose works are discussed: Eric Chevillard, Pablo Sanchez, Jenny Erpenbeck, Ulrike Draesner, and Ian McEwan. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Michael Gratzke is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He has published monographs on masochism and heroism and is currently working on representations of love in the twenty-first century.
Margaret-Anne Hutton is Chair of French and Director of the Institute for Contemporary and Comparative Literature at the University of St Andrews. She has published widely on representations of World War II and on contemporary French fiction. She is currently working on concepts of the contemporary canon.
Claire Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews. She has published a monograph and edited volume on the genre of the fantastic and is currently working on a second monograph dedicated to Russian crime fiction from the 1860s to the present day.