Trafika Europe: Essential New European Literature, Vol. 1

Published by Penn State University Press 2016

Trafika Europe

Essential New European Literature, Vol. 1

Edited by: Andrew Singer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271077307

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About this book

In volume 1 of Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer gathers choice offerings from the first year of the quarterly journal of the same name. These fourteen selections—from seven women and seven men, seven poets and seven fiction writers—represent languages across the Continent, from Shetland Scots and Occitan, Latvian and Polish, Armenian, Italian, Hungarian, German, and Slovenian to Faroese and Icelandic. With some of the most accomplished writing in new translation from Europe today, this volume opens a window onto some emerging contours of European identity. Former ASCAP director of photography Mark Chester complements the writing with sumptuous black-and-white photos.

The contributors are Vincenzo Bagnoli, Ewa Chrusciel, Christine DeLuca, Mandy Haggith, Stefanie Kremser, Aurélia Lassaque, Wiesław Myśliwski, Jóanes Nielsen, Edvīns Raups, László Sárközi, Marko Sosič, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Nara Vardanyan, and Māra Zālīte.

Author / Editor information

Singer Andrew :

Andrew Singer is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and Director and Editor-in-Chief of Trafika Europe (trafikaeurope.org).

Reviews

“Trafika Europe performs a unique service, helping to keep together, and actually helping to bind together, the diverse and often mutually unknown and unrecognized cultures of Europe through the most basic and effective means possible: the heart and the creative imagination. Literature is the great harmonizer, the road to the discovery of common roots and the prospect of a common destiny. Readers of Trafika Europe will benefit from the rich literary heritage of this great cultural sphere.”
—Ervin László, founder and president of the Club of Budapest

“A vital, timely collection of transcendent prose and poetry that highlights the diversity of literatures from across the European continent in a time when the very idea of European identity is a pressing social issue.”
—Will Evans, Deep Vellum Publishing

“This anthology is especially precious because of the little-known languages featured. Poems and excerpts from novels originally written in Occitan, Latvian, Faroese, Icelandic, and Armenian rarely crop up in lively translations even in the—too few—American venues hospitable to foreign literature. But here they are! Kudos to Trafika Europe for their energetic exploratory work. These stimulating pieces will spark thought and talk about the startling variety and less visible unities of European writing.”
—John Taylor, author of Into the Heart of European Poetry and A Little Tour Through European Poetry

“In Trafika Europe, Andrew Singer draws rarely heard and distinctive voices from the gorgeous polyphonic chant of European literature. Occitan, Catalan, Faroese, Shetland Scots, Icelandic, Armenian, and more—the languages toll like bells ringing in counterpoint to accustomed strains. These ‘trajectories of longing,’ beautifully told with particulars strange and familiar, will stir your soul.”
—Tess Lewis, winner of the Austrian Cultural Forum’s 2015 Translation Prize

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editor’s Welcome Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A Treatise on Shelling Beans (novel excerpt) Wiesław Myśliwski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The King of Golden Silk (poem) Aurélia Lassaque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Five Fingers (novel excerpt) Māra Zālīte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Five poems Christine De Luca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Ballerina, Ballerina (novel excerpt) Marko Sosič Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Orpheus in the Underworld 1999 (Dead Times) (poem) Vincenzo Bagnoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The day I learned to fly (novel excerpt) Stefanie Kremser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Then touch me here (ten poems) Edvīns Raups Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
The Heart of Man (novel excerpt) Jón Kalman Stefánsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Inner World (sonnet wreath) László Sárközi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
The Brahmadells: A North Atlantic Chronicle (novel excerpt) Jóanes Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Amour (short story) Nara Vardanyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Six poems Ewa Chrusciel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Seven tree poems Mandy Haggith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
A Note About the Photographs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Images: 15
- Other: 15 illustrations
Keywords: Singer; poetry; fiction; ”European literature”; ”languages”; Europe; identity; Chester; photography; representation

eBook

Published: March 8, 2016
ISBN: 9780271077307