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Trusted PartnerJanuary 1987
Die Rückkehr des Filip Latinovicz
Roman
by Krleža, Miroslav / Übersetzt von Zöllner, Martin
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Trusted PartnerPoetry2015
Metrophobia
by Myroslav Laiuk
Metrophobia is the second book of poetry by Miroslav Layuk. It is the space of language and the world it creates. A world that begins with small autobiographical stories (according to the author), marked with a dash-and-dot line of school trees, abandoned buildings, nursing homes, children's mental hospitals and cemeteries, and it grows into a Sonnetarium – the grand and disparate world of Ezra, in which all connoisseurs of this not very common today poetic genre will live luxuriously. The splendid artistic design by Zhanna Kadyrova further reveals this world, gives it a structure and monumental features, but at the same time seems to build a separate parallel, a separate perspective of movement into the depth of consideration, reading, and interpretation. Metrophobia was recognized as the best poetry collection of 2015 by the annual LitAkcent Literary Prize.
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2005
Das Europa der Nationen
Die moderne Nationsbildung im europäischen Vergleich
by Hroch, Miroslav
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Trusted PartnerThe ArtsFebruary 2022
"I am Jugoslovenka!"
Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism
by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.
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Trusted PartnerSeptember 2017
Europa und die deutsche Einheit
Beobachtungen, Entscheidungen und Folgen
by Herausgegeben von Gehler, Michael; Herausgegeben von Graf, Maximilian; Beiträge von Küsters, Hanns Jürgen; Beiträge von Wentker, Hermann; Beiträge von Geiger, Tim; Beiträge von Amos, Heike; Beiträge von Hilger, Andreas; Beiträge von Meyer, Hinnerk; Beiträge von Schabert, Tilo; Beiträge von O'Driscoll, Mervyn; Beiträge von Kreis, Georg; Beiträge von Brait, Andrea; Beiträge von Knoll, Sarah; Beiträge von Greilinger, Philipp; Beiträge von Makko, Aryo; Beiträge von Auneslouma, Juhana; Beiträge von Uutela, Marju; Beiträge von Olesen, Thorsten Borring; Beiträge von Olesen, Niels Wium; Beiträge von Frøland, Hans Otto; Beiträge von van der Harst, Jan; Beiträge von Harryvan, Anjo G.; Beiträge von Van Hecke, Steven; Beiträge von Janssen, Siebo M.H.; Beiträge von Schmidt-Schweizer, Andreas; Beiträge von Kunstat, Miroslav; Beiträge von Pick, Dominik; Beiträge von Suppan, Arnold; Beiträge von Aschmann, Birgit; Beiträge von Schriffl, David; Beiträge von Cuccia, Deborah; Beiträge von Stergiou, Andreas; Beiträge von Cicek, Hüseyin I.; Beiträge von Schönner, Johannes; Beiträge von Bernardini, Giovanni; Beiträge von Ostermann, Christian F.; Beiträge von Gehler, Michael; Beiträge von Graf, Maximilian
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Literary Fiction
Karusel/Carousel
by Ludwig Bauer
At the very end of the twentieth century, Miroslav/Frederick comes from America to his native provincial town, the imaginary but very real Gradec, where, attending the funeral of his stepmother, he meets his old love, the unforgettable Gabrijela, whose running away with the circus has marked his whole life. The two old people try to flare up the flame of adolescent love in the world which disappears together with the century which reaches its end, melting behind them like sugar wool. Gabrijela and Miroslav led totally different lives and through their destinies that time gets distorted like in a mirror hall. Miroslav is a Jew, who was brought up without the knowledge of his Jewishness. He is a parlor leftist, skeptic, individualist, scientist who always has doubts and believes only in the ideals of a better and fairer society. Unlike him, Gabrijela has always readily accepted every religion, socialism, Catholicism and nationalism alike, and now she believes in the need for peace and living together. She gives herself completely and unquestioningly to all her religions, putting herself and her talent for fortune telling and curing diseases by old, almost witchlike methods into them. Through the destinies of these two unusual characters, Bauer has given a graphic picture of our provinces, their citizens and the prejudices that have burdened them from times immemorial. Carousel (Karusel) is a novel of strong personalities whose destinies have a universal value, and their efforts to survive in the mill-wheel of history acquire the characteristics of true heroism.
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Venus in the Afternoon
by Tehila Lieberman
The short stories in this rich debut collection embody in their complexity Alice Munro’s description of the short story as “a world seen in a quick, glancing light.” In chiseled and elegant prose, Lieberman conjures wildly disparate worlds. A middle aged window washer, mourning his wife and an estranged daughter, begins to grow attached to a young woman he sees through the glass; a writer, against his better judgment, pursues a new relationship with a femme fatale who years ago broke his heart; and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor struggles with the delicate decision of whether to finally ask her aging mother how it was that she survived. It is all here—the exigencies of love, of lust, the raw, unlit terrain of grief. Whether plumbing the darker depths or casting a humorous eye on a doomed relationship, these stories never force a choice between tragedy and redemption, but rather invite us into the private moments and crucibles of lives as hungry and flawed as our own. “Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.” —Miroslav Penkov, author of East of the West and judge