ICH MUß MEIN HERZ üBEN Tacitly humanity is in agreement that the world does exist. Hardly anyone dares come out publicly with the question: Is there really a world ? The fact that it’s visible is insufficient proof. If something invisible can exist, then it should be possible now and agai
They enter Brixton Market and stroll along the main aisle. An overpowering stench, a huge variety of fish, seafood, draped sea monsters, creatures, which, when he glances at their tentacles, and at the severed heads left in plastic buckets, make him wretch. Did he need some fresh air? With some effo
Chapter 8 For the past 11 days Darius Kopp has been waiting in the sweltering heat of Budapest for the urn of his wife. Like an amphibian under a stone. Except that he was almost never alone. Thousands of people around me, no matter where I go. But, and that was something new, or else […]
This is the first time that I’ve finished writing a novel since I’ve been living in France. I believed that writing outside of my country would increase my feelings of being no place. But now I am able to say that writing itself can become a home. It occupies the place of home and accompanies [&
A recent visitor to Budapest, the novelist Jonathan Franzen, believes that we are living in a “media-saturated, technology-crazed, apocalypse-haunted historical moment” which constantly gives one the feeling that the Krausian last days of humanity are near. Apocalypse notwithstanding, the Americ
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today announced the finalists for the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. The Neustadt Prize is the most prestigious international literary award given in the United S
