We kindly inform you that, as long as the subject affiliation of our 300.000+ articles is in progress, you might get unsufficient or no results on your third level or second level search. In this case, please broaden your search criteria.
On the occasion of the publication of the book “Nineteen ninety-two”, which documents the wartime events in Doboj – a book which has already seen two editions in just one month, while the third one is being prepared – in which the author, Mirko Jeleč, points out that the truth about the beginning of the war in Doboj was purposely kept hidden for thirty years, but the witnesses of these events are still alive and the crimes for which no one answered still hurt. In order to draw attention to this valuable literary and documentary prose, we publish two stories from the book in our “Word” section, along with a statement from the author himself under the title “Three truths hide the real truth.“ In the “Reviews” section we also publish a review of the book “Nineteen ninety-two” which was written by Miralem Begić, a journalist, and in the “Glossary of new authors” we also provide some basic biographical information on Mirko Jeleč.
More...
Mi primera casa en Barcelona después de abandonar La Habana para siempre fue un piso compartido junto a una plaza de toros. En temporada de corridas, se sentía fuerte el olor de los chiqueros. Piso compartido al fin, tenía un aire desangelado. Las paredes pintadas (o despintadas) de un amarillo sucio, se veían desprovistas hasta un pequeño cuadro que celebrara la vida de alguno de nosotros –la nostalgia o la alegría de alguno de nosotros.
More...
Short stories by Danica Bartulović ("Unatoč beznađu", "Ljudske mane", "Ima li ljubav granice", "Sve je relativno", "Štucanje", "Budi dijete", "Didovo zlato", "Po mjeri", "Izgorjela šuma", "Pod strehom duše").
More...
Short story by Lana Vranješ: "CHILDREN ARE A SPECIAL GIFT, TREAT THEM THAT WAY".
More...
Short story by Ivana Bebek: "CHILDREN ARE A SPECIAL GIFT, TREAT THEM THAT WAY".
More...
Excerpt from the novel „Voci la distanță”, by Gabriela Adameșteanu, currently being published by the Polirom publishing house.
More...
Travels and the longing for afar have been and still are the source of inspiration for many authors. This article analyses Bodo Kirchoff’s short story “Widerfahrnis” (“Encounter”), which belongs to the genre of travel literature and extends the literary tradition of German authors to choose the theme of travel to Italy in their work (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, etc.). The short story raises the existential questions of longing for love, loneliness, confrontation with refugees, and moral and social aspects of relations with them. The article aims to reveal how the structures of experience described by the German phenomenologist Bernhard Waldenfels appear in the work of Bodo Kirchhoff. What happens to us does not happen without our involvement but goes beyond it. The experience begins not with the intentional gaze of the subject, but when someone (a stranger) touches us, encounters us, causes us to react and raises tension. Bernhard Waldenfels attributes the encounter to the realm of pathos, meaning to the realm of feelings. Response or the inevitable response to an encounter comes earlier than an understanding or an answer. Although the title of the short story is in the singular form, it reveals many encounters: a meeting of an older couple, a spontaneous trip to Italy, an encounter with a refugee girl and a refugee family, the birth of love and its loss.
More...