Links to literatures of Eastern / Central Europe

[nyka]

Hi,
I'm interested in literatures of literatures of Middle and Easter Europe. I hope there are many people they show interest in this region. Let's share the interesting links about literatures, cultures and history of Eastern / Central Europe.

Central European and Slavic Literature in Translation (CESLIT) http://www.centomag.org/ceslit/

South Slavic Literature Library
http://www.borut.com/library/

EASTERN-CENTRAL EUROPE: The Multicultural Arena
http://www.omnibusol.com/easteurope.html


Russian and Eastern European Literature (Short introduction)
http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/1slavlit.html

[Zybahn]

Thanks for the links. I read a fair amount of Hungarian, Czech and Russian writers, but aside from the Russians Easterners are not always easy to find in the west. Lately I've been reading Gyorgy (George) Konrad and Ivan Klima. I'll take a look at the links once I have more time and try to add some of my own.

[nyka]

I think we can also share not only Internet links but also names of authors they are important for this region and its culture. Lately I have discovered Andrzej Stasiuk who describe journeys through Middle and South Europe in very poetical and philosophical manner and catch in his book JADAC DO BABADAG ("Going to Babadag") the atmosphere of this region. Together with Ukrainian writer J. Andruchowicz he has wrote the book MOJE EUROPA. DWA ESEJE O EUROPIE ZWANEJ SRODKOWA / MY EUROPE. TWO ESSAYS ON THE PLACE CALLED CENTRAL EUROPE. And there is one link to interview with Stasiuk:
http://www.polishwriting.net/?s=author&c=stasiuk

[Moandor]

Although I come from Poland I've never read anything by Andrzej Stasiuk. He is rather famed and priced polish writer.
In 2007 Stasiuk received the Arkady Fiedler Award "Amber Butterfly" (for the best polish adventure book of the year) for "Fado".

From among polish authors who write adventure literature I recomend you Ryszard Kapuściński, a great reporter and traveller.

[nyka]

Thanks, Moandor,
but Ryszard Kapuściński has wrote about far countries, for all I know, an I spoke here about Central and Easter Europe. Anyways, dziekuje :)

[Moandor]

Not only about far countries, but also about Russia or Soviet Union (The Empire), another Soviet Republics like Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, (The Kirghisz Dismounts), even one book about Poland (The Polish Bush) but I'm not sure if this books were translated into English...

[nyka]

http://www.ceeol.com/
C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from 299 humanities and social science journals and re-digitized documents pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics.

[Boris239]

I really like Milorad Pavic - mostly "dictionary of the khazars".
From the Polish authors I haven't read much but when I was a kid I adored Szklyarski's stories about Tomek (still rereading it sometimes secretly). I've also read Zenon Kosidovski stories about Old and New Testament.
From Czech writers it's Yaroslav Gashek and Yanush Korchack.

[ivette]

If you're interested in slavic literature, slovene literature could be interesting too. Our literature isn't well known but we have some very good authors.
I personally like Ivan Cankar's short stories very much, but i'm not sure if they are translated in English.
Also our most famous romantic poet France Preseren has some very good poems and I think he is translated in some other languages.

[nyka]

Thanks, ivette

I know some Slovenians writers, above all Tomaž Šalamun, Alešo Debeljak, Primož Čučkin, Aleš Šteger. They all are poets and i like them (I have thme read on Lithuanian, Russian, Polish and German) but I can't remember any Slovenian prose writer.


Do know some internet site where I can find some translations of Slovenian literature into English or others languages?

Thank you in advice! :)

[ivette]

Well I really don't know many internet sites about translations of slovene literature but I found this one and I hope it will be useful for you:

http://www.transcript-review.org/section.cfm?id=257&lan=en

Here you have some information about translations in English, German and French. I hope it will help :)


I forgot to mention one of the best slovene novels in my last post : Alamut by Vladimir Bartol. It has a really interesting story about Persia in 11th century. It was very educational for me because it helps you understand things that happen in the Arabian world even nowadays.

[nyka]

I really like Milorad Pavic - mostly "dictionary of the khazars".

I have read the Dictionary of Khazars also, really very good book. But Pavič is one writer who I know from Serbia. I have also read some Essays by Danilo Kiš. And that's all :(