World Literature Today back issues from October 2003:
A Homeland without Friends.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre> A Homeland without Friends Fates have wronged youWhen you were born, oh my homelandIn the age of calamitiesOh land of fertility and water(Between two rivers or two swords)You suffer thirstYou suffer hungerAs your Euphrates and Tigris...
The Dead Know No Fear.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre> The Dead Know No Fear I went out like a sleepwalkerAroused by nightmaresI began searching for my homelandIn all continentsOn earth and in heavensPrayingReciting every supplicationCarrying shrines on my shouldersAnd a generation of ...
Enheduanna.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre> Enheduanna Oh Towers:It's time to leave this Mesopotamian soilThis land of sighsToo many dead you have buriedWhile brooding your conspiraciesYour rotten days Time for emptinessTo fill my veinsBleeding with remorseAs I lament ...
My Love Humiliated me.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre>My Love Humiliated MeMy love humiliated meSo did my wound that extends from the palm tree's braidsTo the people's breadAnd when the Tartars one night besieged meI crossed the wall of the massacred homelandAnxiety was my provisionTerror ...
Ulysses.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre>On Malmo's bridgeI saw the Euphratesextending its handsand leading me--Where to? I said.The dream was hardly overwhen I saw the Umayyad soldiersbesieging me from every direction. Farewell to a windowin the land of ruins...
A vision.(Brief Article)(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre>This Iraq will go to the end of the graveyardIt will bury its citizens in open countryGeneration after generationAnd will forgive its executioner.Iraq, as was known, will never come backAnd the larks will never singSo go on--if you wish--for a long ...
Six Vietnamese ca dao.(Poem)
Oct 01, 2003; ... <Pre> Love Lament Stepping into the field, sadness fills my deep heart.Bundling rice sheaves, tears dart in two streaks.Who made me miss the ferry's leaving?Who made this shallow creek that parts both sides? Venturing Out Each evening, ducks paddle, ...
In remembrance: John L. Brown.(WLT Tribute)(Obituary)
Oct 01, 2003; ... IT WAS WITH GREAT SADNESS and a deep sense of loss that the World Literature Today staff received word of the passing of longtime WLT collaborator, editorial board member, and 1982 Neustadt Prize juror John L. Brown, who died on November 22, 2002. Remarkably, Brown contributed to the pages ...
Celebrating the Georges Simenon Centennial.(Currents)(Biography)
Oct 01, 2003; ... THE YEAR 2003 marks the centenary of the birth of Georges Simenon (1903-89), one of the most prolific French-language novelists of the twentieth century. Sponsored by the city of Liege, Belgium, and the University of Liege, a year-long series of exhibits, conferences, films, guided tours, ...
Writing in the time since time exploded: the Czech novel, 1990-2002.(Essential Books)
Oct 01, 2003; ... THE LANDSCAPE OF CZECH LITERATURE--along with all of Czech culture and society--shifted dramatically after the Velvet Revolution of November 1989, which brought forty-one years of communist rule (and twenty-one years of direct Soviet occupation) to an end. One of the most immediate and ...
Russian bouquets and Cuban Noir.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2003; ... I VERY MUCH ENJOYED Kerstin Ekman's discussion of translations and translators in your April-June issue. It was particularly interesting to learn that the occasion for this was a meeting between this author and a number of her translators. If only this could be done more often, as both ...
The many worlds of world literature.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
Oct 01, 2003; ... LIKE SO MANY OTHER READERS of this newest member of the World Literature Today journal family (as reflected in the letters section), I am most impressed with the beautiful design and production features of the magazine; but there is also much of substance and interest in these pages. As ...
Manuel Bandeira. Selected Poems.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Manuel Bandeira. Selected Poems. David R. Slavitt, tr. Horacio Costa, intro. Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York. Sheep Meadow Press (University Press of New England, distr.). 2002. xviii + 153 pages. $12.95. ISBN 1-931357-01-3 ACCORDING TO Mario de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira was "the ...
Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Gathering Seaweed: African Prison Writing. Jack Mapanje, ed. Oxford / Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Heinemann. 2002. xxii + 328 pages. $19.95. ISBN 0-435-91211-9 KWAME NKRUMAH, Nelson Mandela, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Nawal El Saadawi are just five of the well-known ...
Nega Mezlekia. The God Who Begat a Jackal.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Nega Mezlekia. The God Who Begat a Jackal New York. Picador USA (St. Martin's distr.). 2002. viii + 242 pages. $23. ISBN 0-312-28701-1 NEGA MEZLEKIA left Ethiopia in 1983 and is an engineer in Toronto. He received the Governor General's Award for his memoir, Notes from the ...
Ashokamitran. My Father's Friend and Other Stories.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Ashokamitran. My Father's Friend and Other Stories. Lakshmi Holmstrom, tr. New Delhi Sahitya Akademi. 2002. 207 pages. Rs120 ISBN 81-260-1347-8 LAKSHMI HOLMSTROM has brought a welcome sprightliness and transparency to her translations of modern Tamil literature, performing ...
Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The Girl from the Coast.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The Girl from the Coast. Willem Samuels, tr. New York. Hyperion East. 2002. 279 pages, $22.95. ISBN 0-78686820-1 PRAMOEDYA TOER'S recent novel, The Girl from the Coast, might be more aptly titled "Two Girls and the Coast," since the central narrative of ...
Ibrahim Al-Koni. The Bleeding of the Stone.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Ibrahim Al-Koni. The Bleeding of the Stone. May Jayyusi, Christopher Tingley, trs. Northampton, Massachusetts. Interlink Books. 2002. 136 pages, $12.95. ISBN 1-56656-417-4 THE WADDAN OR MOUFFLON is a wild mountain sheep with large curling horns that survives in the remote desert ...
Nazim Hikmet. Human Landscapes from My Country: an Epic Novel in Verse.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Nazim Hikmet. Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse. Randy Biasing, Mutlu Konuk, trs. New York. Persea. 2002. xiv + 466 pages. $39.95. ISBN 0-89255-273-5 TO APPRECIATE what Nazim Hikmet (1902-63) is about in his masterful Human Landscapes, it is worth knowing ...
Menna Elfyn. Cusan Dyn Dall / Blind Man's Kiss.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Menna Elfyn. Cusan Dyn Dall / Blind Man's Kiss Highgreen, U.K. Bloodaxe (Dufour, distr.). 2001 (released 2002). 128 pages. $16.95. ISBN 1-85224-544-1 MENNA ELFYN is presently the contemporary Welsh-language poet enjoying the greatest international reputation, due in part to the ...
Kwame Dawes. New and Selected Poems, 1994-2002.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Kwame Dawes. New and Selected Poems, 1994-2002. Leeds, England. Peepal Tree. 2002. 276 pages. 9.99 [pounds sterling]/$14.95. ISBN 1-900715-70-8 DIVIDED INTO EIGHT SECTIONS, Kwame Dawes's New and Selected Poems is an amazingly rich collection. It contains a sampling of verse ...
Mary Gallagher. Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: the Shock of Space and Time.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Mary Gallagher. Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock of Space and Time New York. Oxford University Press. 2002 (released 2003). viii + 293 pages. $72. ISBN 0-19-815982-X IN Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950, Mary Gallagher has produced a ...
Maryse Conde. Histoire de la femme cannibale.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Maryse Conde. Histoire de la femme cannibale Paris. Mercure de France. 2003 317 pages. 18 [euro]. ISBN 2-7152-2326-9 MARYSE CONDE'S Histoire de la femme cannibale, the recent novel by the author of Segou (1984; see WLT 59:2, p. 309), Desirada (1997; see WLT 72:2, p. 437), and La ...
Wilson Harris. The Mask of the Beggar.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Wilson Harris. The Mask of the Beggar. London. Faber. 2003. xii + 172 pages. 16.99. [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-571-21774-5 WILSON HARRIS'S concern in The Mask of the Beggar--the culmination of his work--is for the release of prisoners: these may be politically marginalized and ...
Sunday Afolayan. Beyond the Silent Grave.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Sunday Afolayan. Beyond the Silent Grave. Ibadan, Nigeria. Spectrum Books (African Books Collective, distr.) 2002. 251 pages. 6.95 [pounds sterling]/$11.95. ISBN 978-029-281-0 THE YOUNG AND WELL-EDUCATED Shola Badmus of Lagos has already courted and subsequently ended his ...
V. S. Naipaul. The Writer and the World.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... V. S. Naipaul. The Writer and the World. Pankaj Mishra, ed. & intro. New York. Knopf. 2002. xv + 524 pages. $30. ISBN 0-375-40739-1 FROM HIS "NEAR HYSTERIA" IN INDIA to his disdain for Black Power movements in the Caribbean, V. S. Naipaul's disappointment in the postcolonial ...
Vijay Lakshmi. Pomegranate Dreams and Other Stories.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Vijay Lakshmi. Pomegranate Dreams and Other Stories. New Delhi. Indialog. 2002. 230 pages. Rs195. ISBN 81-87981-25-3 VIJAY LAKSHMI was educated in India and the United States; at present, she teaches English in a college in Philadelphia. Pomegranate Dreams is her first book of ...
Amit Chaudhuri. Real Time: Stories and a Reminiscence.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Amit Chaudhuri. Real Time: Stories and a Reminiscence New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2002. 184 pages. $21. ISBN 0-374-28169-6 BORN IN Calcutta and raised in Bombay, Amit Chaudhuri now divides his time between India and England. An award-winning novelist, the British-educated ...
Bharati Mukherjee. Desirable Daughters.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Bharati Mukherjee. Desirable Daughters New York. Hyperion. 2002. 310 pages. $13.95. ISBN 0-7868-8515-7 IN DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS, Bharati Mukherjee sets herself a dual task: she wants to tell her Indian readers about Indian expatriates in America and her American readers about ...
Meera Nair. Video.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Meera Nair. Video. New York. Pantheon. 2002. 195 pages. $21.95. ISBN 0-375-42111-4 INDIA-BORN Meera Nair--not to be confused with the filmmaker Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala, Kama Sutra, Monsoon Wedding)--first gained national recognition in the United States with the title ...
Longyun Li. Small Well Lane: a Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Longyun Li. Small Well Lane: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History. Hong Jiang, Timothy Cheek, trs. & eds. Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2002. xii + 138 pages. $55 ($19.95 paper). ISBN 0-472-09795-4 (06795-8 paper) THIS FIVE-ACT PLAY, published in 1981 but not ...
Postindependence Voices in South Asian Writings.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Postindependence Voices in South Asian Writings. Alamgir Hashmi, Lalashiri Lal, Victor Ramraj, eds. Islamabad, Pakistan. Alhamra. 2001 (released 2002). Rs450. 320 pages. ISBN 969-516-093-X POSTINDEPENDENCE VOICES IN SOUTH ASIAN WRITINGS brings together literary scholarship, ...
Edwidge Danticat. After the Dance: a Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Edwidge Danticat. After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti. New York. Crown. 2002. 158 pages. $16. ISBN 0-609-60908-4 IN HER more autobiographical texts, Maryse Conde relates that her black bourgeois parents in Point-a-Pitre would only let her watch carnival ...
Carol Fairbanks. Japanese Women Fiction Writers: Their Culture and Society, 1890s to 1990s.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Carol Fairbanks. Japanese Women Fiction Writers: Their Culture and Society, 1890s to 1990s. Lanham, Maryland Scarecrow (Rowman & Littlefield, distr.). 2002. xxi + 646 pages. $115. ISBN 0-8108-4086-3 CAROL FAIRBANKS has put together a reference work packed with useful, detailed ...
Makoto Oda. The Breaking Jewel.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Makoto Oda. The Breaking Jewel. Donald Keene, tr. New York. Columbia University Press. 2003. xiii + 116 pages. $49.50 ($16.50 paper). ISBN 0-231-12612-3 (12613-1 paper) WITH DONALD KEENE, our most important scholar of Japanese literature, we are guaranteed an accurate and ...
Ooka Makoto. Citadelle de lumiere: Anthologie personnelle de poemes (1956-1997).(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Ooka Makoto. Citadelle de lumiere: Anthologie personnelle de poemes (1956-1997). Dominique Palme tr. Aries / Paris, Philippe Picquier / UNESCO. 2002. 167 pages, ill. ISBN 287730-608-9 / 92-3-203827-7 SURELY ANY AND ALL ATTEMPTS to familiarize readers of one language with ...
David C. Stahl. The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... David C. Stahl. The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei's Writings on the Pacific War. Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2003. x + 374 pages. $49. ISBN 0-8248-2540-3 OOKA SHOHEI (1909-88) was both an author of fiction and a writer of critical essays whose writing career ...
Dong-Ha Lee. Shrapnel and Other Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Dong-Ha Lee. Shrapnel and Other Stories. Hyun-jae Yee Sallee, ed. & tr. Buffalo, New York. White Pine. 2002. 176 pages. $16. ISBN 1-893996-53-0 THERE SEEMS NOT to be a work of modern Korean fiction that does not reflect the bruising of the national psyche by the Korean War. The ...
Kwija Yang. A Distant and Beautiful Place.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Kwija Yang. A Distant and Beautiful Place. Soyoung Kim, Julie Pickering, trs. Honolulu. University of Hawai'i Press. 2003. vii + 242 pages. $39 ($12.95 paper). ISBN 0-8248-2639-6 KWIJA YANG gained her fame as a writer with her serial stories Wonmi-dong Saramdul (The people of ...
Ghulam Fariduddin Riaz. Baramasa: Seasons of Rural Life.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Ghulam Fariduddin Riaz. Baramasa: Seasons of Rural Life. Naveed Shahzad, intro. Karachi, Pakistan. Oxford University Press. 2002. xix + 112 pages. Rs295. ISBN 0-19-579607-1 FOLLOWING two earlier verse collections, Shade in Passing (see WLT 67:1, p. 238) and Escaping Twenty ...
Alvin Pang. City of Rain.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Alvin Pang. City of Rain. Singapore. Ethos. 2003. 100 pages. $12. ISBN 981-04-6329-4 PEOPLE IN SINGAPORE are like passengers in a super-modern train that have no time to find out where the train is going. Even Superman is powerless because the ability to jump over taller ...
A. S. Byatt. A Whistling Woman.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... A. S. Byatt. A Whistling Woman. New York. Knopf. 2002. 427 pages. $26. ISBN 0-375-41534-3 "A WHISTLING WOMAN and a Crowing Hen / Is neither good for God nor Men." This epigraph for A. S. Byatt's novel A Whistling Woman, the fourth in her saga of the intellectual Potter family, ...
Paul Bowles. Collected Stories and Later Writings.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Paul Bowles. Collected Stories and Later Writings. Daniel Halpern, ed. New York. Library of America. 2002. xi + 1062 pages. $40. ISBN 1-931082-20-0 THREE YEARS after his death in 1999, Paul Bowles became an American classic with the publication of two volumes of his work in the ...
William Boyd. Any Human Heart: the Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... William Boyd. Any Human Heart: the Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart New York. Knopf. 2003. 498 pages. $24.95. ISBN 0-375-41493-2 IN THE PREAMBLE to his journals, Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, the central figure of William Boyd's recent novel Any Human Heart, writes: "Every ...
Max Crawford. Eastertown.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Max Crawford. Eastertown. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press. 2003. 443 pages. $29.95. ISBN 0-8061-3487-9 MAX CRAWFORD'S Eastertown brings alive the mid-twentieth-century world of a small town in the Texas Panhandle, and, although the novel clearly examines the sins of those ...
Britt Holmstrom. The Wrong Madonna.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Britt Holmstrom. The Wrong Madonna. Toronto. Cormorant. 2002. 397 pages, Can$22.95. ISBN 1-896951-37-6 SWEDISH-BORN, CANADIAN-DWELLING writer Britt Holmstrom's The Wrong Madonna is her second novel in English but her third overall. Set in London, Canada, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, ...
Carol Shields. Unless.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Carol Shields. Unless. London / New York. Fourth Estate (HarperCollins, distr.). 2002. 213 pages. $24.95 ($13.95 paper). ISBN 0-00-714107-6 (713770-2 paper) SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE of her life, Reta Winters is on tour in Washington, D.C., to promote her first novel. Bookstore ...
John Updike. Seek My Face.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... John Updike. Seek My Face. New York. Knopf. 2002. 276 pages. $23. ISBN 0-375-41490-8 JOHN UPDIKE'S novel Seek My Face is a fiction inspired by the painters Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and others, with Hope Ouderkirk standing in for Krasner, ...
Marie Borroff. Stars and Other Signs.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Marie Borroff. Stars and Other Signs. New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press. 2002. xiv + 84 pages. $18.95. ISBN 0-300-09570-8 AFTER READING Stars and Other Signs all spring, I have rediscovered my old appreciation for lyric poetry. Marie Borroff, the purest American poet ...
Sam Hamill. Dumb Luck.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Sam Hamill. Dumb Luck. Rochester, New York. BOA. 2002. 102 pages $13.95. ISBN 1-929918-25-9 DUMB LUCK, Sam Hamill's recent verse collection, reveals an unorthodox blend of influences. On one hand, we have Zen-based poems written in a characteristically restrained voice but with ...
John Koethe. North Point North: New and Selected Poems.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... John Koethe. North Point North: New and Selected Poems. New York. HarperCollins. 2002. 254 pages. $26.95 ISBN 0-06-620982-X JOHN KOETHE is one of the most distinctive poets of our time. His work presents ordinary life and its contemplation with eloquence; his is a philosophical ...
Norbert Krapf. The Country I Come From.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Norbert Krapf. The Country I Come From. Santa Maria, California. Archer (Midpoint Trade, distr.). 2002. 142 pages. $15. ISBN 1-931122-05-9 THE TITLE of Norbert Krapf's new poetry volume already points in the direction of how the book was intended to be read: as a ...
Mona Van Duyn. Selected Poems.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Mona Van Duyn. Selected Poems. New York. Knopf. 2002. viii + 218 pages. $27.50. ISBN 0-375-41369-3 "WE ARE LOCKED IN UNLOVE. I am sick of my own braying." This line from a poem called "Recovery," describing a prolonged hospital stay, reveals the sort of antipoetic that governs ...
James Merrill. Collected Novels and Plays.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... James Merrill. Collected Novels and Plays. J. D. McClatchy, Stephen Yenser, eds. New York. Knopf. 2002. 676 pages. $40. ISBN 0-375-41137-2 JAMES MERRILL'S Collected Novels and Plays is surprisingly fresh while being very elegant (yes, elegant: delicate, detailed, fine, light, ...
Margaret Atwood. Negotiating with the Dead: a Writer on Writing.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Margaret Atwood. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. New York. Cambridge University Press. 2002. xxvii + 219 pages. $18. ISBN 0-521-66260-5 WHAT A CHILLING and enduring pleasure is here. The disembodied voice of Margaret Atwood seems to deliver Cambridge University's ...
The Beat Generation: Critical Essays.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... The Beat Generation: Critical Essays. Kostas Myrsiades, ed. New York. Peter Lang. 2002. x + 352 pages. $29.95. ISBN 0-8204-5778-7 HOW MUCH SIMPLER the academic world was in 1963, when I assigned Jack Kerouac's On the Road to my freshman English class, the first instructor to do ...
Morris Dickstein. Leopards in the Temple: the Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Morris Dickstein. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University Press. 2002. xii + 242 pages. $15.95. ISBN 0-674-00604-6 ALTHOUGH THE TITLE of Leopards in the Temple derives from Kafka's Parables and ...
William Logan. Desperate Measures.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... William Logan. Desperate Measures. Gainesville. University Press of Florida. 2002. xi + 334 pages. $34.95. ISBN 0-8130-2562-1 "HAS ANY MAJOR POET written a worse poem about America than 'The Gift Outright'?" William Logan asks in the first essay in Desperate Measures, an essay ...
Blessed Harbours: an Anthology of Hungarian-Canadian Authors.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Blessed Harbours: an Anthology of Hungarian-Canadian Authors. John Miska, ed. Toronto / Buffalo / New York. Guernica. 2002. 260 pages. ISBN 1-55071-171-7 THE ANTHOLOGY Blessed Harbours is of special interest for two reasons. First, it comprises the work of thirty-six Hungarian ...
Swimming in the Ground: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Swimming in the Ground: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry. 2nd ed Michael Castro, Gabor G. Gyukios, eds. & trs. St. Louis, Missouri. Neshui. 2001 (released 2003). xxx + 166 pages. $15. ISBN 1-931190-26-7 THE TRANSLATORS of Swimming in the Ground chose these forty poets, with dates ...
Magda Szabo. Fur Elise.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Magda Szabo. Fur Elise. Budapest. Europa. 2002. 420 pages. 1,800 Ft. ISBN 963-076820-8 MAGDA SZABO, the eighty-year-old empress of Hungarian literature (poet, playwright, scholar, critic, and Nobel Prize nominee), has become famous as a novelist. Since the 1970s she has ...
A szetszortsag arenaja: Negy egtaj magyar irodalmabol.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... A szetszortsag arenaja: Negy egtaj magyar irodalmabol. Gyula David, Zoltan Veress, eds. Stockholm. Erdelyi Konyveglet. 2003. 262 pages. ISBN 91-973281-0-3 NOBEL LAUREATE Wislawa Szymborska, while warning us against forgetting, mourns the sad fact that "those who knew / what was ...
Pentti Holappa. Kaksi kirjailijaa.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Pentti Holappa. Kaksi kirjailijaa. Helsinki. WSOY. 2002. 233 pages. 30 [euro]. ISBN 951-027325-2 PENTTI HOLAPPA'S Kaksi kirjailijaa (Two writers) is a homoerotic novel. Arttu is a writer living in near isolation on a farm close to the Russo-Finnish border. He keeps a cow, a ...
Sigitas Parulskis. Trys sekundes dangaus.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Sigitas Parulskis. Trys sekundes dangaus. Vilnius. Baltos Lankos. 2002. 215 pages. ISBN 9955-429-89-5 SIGITAS PARULSKIS, an outstanding Lithuanian poet, author of plays and prose, was drafted into the Soviet army to become a member of the famous and infamous elite paratroopers ...
Ilan Duran Cohen. Mon cas personnel.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2003; ... Ilan Duran Cohen, Mon cas personnel. Arles. Actes Sud. 2002. 207 pages. 15.90 [euro]. ISBN 2-7427-3923-8 REMINISCENT of Italo Svevo's self-disparaging sense of humor, the narrator of Ilan Duran Cohen's novel Mon cas personnel, Alain Conlang, is a Jewish misfit who deliberately ...