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		<title>The Eastern Connection / Mirrors of Europe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking into the mirror is an experience that is unavoidable though not necessarily always agreeable. Yet it can often be more revealing than one might expect, since looking into the mirror allows us to see ourselves, for a moment, from the outside – the way others see us. Families, communities, nations and cultures also need a chance to see themselves in the mirror, that is to say, through the eyes of others. We asked twenty European authors from twenty European countries to choose another country on the continent and sketch its portrait, creating a kind of literary mobility scheme, a writers’ Erasmus exchange. Each of the texts produced as part of the Mirrors of Europe project reflects a different country.
This volume offers the first set of essays, with mirrors reflecting half the countries of Europe.  Portuguese writer Gonçalo Manuel Tavares discovers what Europe is made of as he flies above Istanbul; the Italian Andrea Bajani walks around Bucharest in the company of stray dogs; Slovakia’s Jana Beňová looks for Fernando Pessoa in the Bertrand bookshop in Lisbon’s Chiado; and Vitalie Ciobanu from Moldova explores Amsterdam by bike, stopping at Anne Frank’s house and admiring van Gogh’s paintings. Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulić travels the length of Italy, from a moribund Venice to the island of Lampedusa, throbbing with immigrant voices, in which she discerns the melody of a future Europe.  Ukraine’s Andrey Kurkov has spent the past twenty-five years trying to work out the puzzle known as Great Britain while Poland’s Andrzej Stasiuk roams Moldova in the scorching heat of summer. In Oslo, Romanian Ioana Pârvulescu feels like a Viking in a boat, while Jochen Schmidt sneaks onto the roof of his Berlin tenement night after night to inflate his spaceship and fly to Budapest.
French author Marie Darrieussecq feels ambivalent about her visit to Slovakia, describing it as “Europe of the small countries and undoubtedly the future of Europe: a Europe that works, that mows its lawns, piles up its logs, builds its bridges, and is not too fond of Gypsies”. And on a final, sombre note, Radka Denemarková takes a hard look at her native Czech Republic, despairing over a country that has had to rehabilitate Franz Kafka.]]></description>
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		<title>Europe and the Nation-States</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[andrea]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[György Konrád]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Arno Burgi / EPA Europe: A Shared Subject? Can we say that the European Union is gradually turning, by fits and starts, into a new kind of community of nations? Is there a many-headed, thinking being by that name seeking its own portrait, its own determining values? I think so. Nowadays we are all learning a new version of ourselves, discovering what it means to be citizens not only of our own countries but of the EU at the same time. What is novel about our new situation, compared to how we have seen ourselves in the past? Is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Krakowska, krakowska, krakowska</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Peter Župník People say that ever since the good old days of communism ended the quality of our food has gone to the dogs. It&#8217;s now full of chemicals, additives and taste enhancers&#8230; Those who claim this usually cite Wedel&#8217;s chocolate with whole hazelnuts as a prime example. The post-communist variety is apparently made with Chinese nuts and the chocolate allegedly contains more sugar than it used to. I don&#8217;t know if this claim is fuelled by nostalgia for the old days that are now gone forever or if it&#8217;s based on an objective assessment of consumer data. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A suicidal novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[andrea]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Peter Župník This book, mercilessly critical of contemporary Russia, has been written by someone who knows the country well &#8211; indeed thoroughly. It is a daring book that spares neither those in power nor the people. It doesn&#8217;t spare the Russian intelligentsia either. It is a book that speaks of the degradation of the country and the state. I read it with growing amazement. It is written passionately, in the spirit of the famous 19th century Russian writer Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin&#8217;s The History of a Town, a sharply satirical novel published in 1870 that presented a scathing portrait of Russia. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Svätopluk&#8217;s Horse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To talk, let alone write, about genitalia, and, particularly those of horses, is a rather tricky undertaking but since what I have in mind are matters of national &#8211; indeed: international &#8211; import, as well as matters of literature, I have perpetrated this text in the hope of offending neither human nor equine feelings. 2008, if I remember right, saw the collapse of a highly influential Polish literary magazine. It was called Studium. This journal occupies a place particularly close to the heart of the writer of these lines. It is exactly ten years since I made my literary debut [&#8230;]]]></description>
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