Details

Subject(s)

• East European fiction—Women authors—Translations into English [Browse]
• East European fiction—20th century—Translations into English [Browse]

Related name

• Schwartz, Agata, 1961- [Browse]
• Von Flotow-Evans, Luise [Browse]
• von Flotow, Luise, 1951- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Series

Writings from an unbound Europe [More in this series]

Summary note

"The events of 1989 that brought an end to the so-called East Bloc may have increased women's opportunities to write and publish, or at least changed the circumstances under which they do so. Still writing from a certain historical and cultural margin, these women from East Central Europe have begun to explore a new freedom whose fruits are displayed to exhilarating effect in this book-a freedom to experiment, to innovate, to create a literature uniquely expressive of their world. This volume for the first time allows English-speaking readers to discover the pleasures of these women's writing. A rich compendium of fiction by twenty-five women from eighteen different nations ranging from Lithuania to Ukraine to Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Albania, and Slovenia, The Third Shore brings to light a whole spectrum of women's literary accomplishment and experience virtually unknown in the West. Gracefully translated, and with an introduction that establishes their political, historical, and literary context, these stories written in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain are tales of the familiar-of illness and death, love and desire, motherhood and war, feminism, and patriarchy-reconceived and turned into something altogether new by the distinctive experience they reflect."--Publisher's website.

Notes

Translated into English.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

Translated into English.

Contents

• Women's space and women's writing in post-Communist Europe / [Agata Schwartz, Louise von Flotow]
• Plaza de España / Diana Çuli
• The shears / Mira Mekşi
• The dancer in the window / Sanja Lovrenčić
• Why do these black worms fly just everywhere I am myself only accidentally / Lela B. Njatin
• How we killed the sailor / Alma Lazarevska
• 20 Firula Road / Ljiljiana Đurđić
• The story of the man who sold sauerkraut and had a lioness-daughter / Judita Šalgo
• The same old story / Jadranka Vladova
• The herbarium / Hristina Marinova
• Everything's OK / Daniela Crăsnaru
• from A day without a president / Carmen Francesca Banciu
• South wind and a sunny day / Zsuzsa Kapecz
• from Like two peas in a pod / Dóra Esze
• A little bedtime story / Jana Juránová
• Day by day / Etela Farkašová
• Far and near / Daniela Fischerová
• I, Milena / Oksana Zabuzhko
• The cyber / Ljubovʹ Romanchuk
• from E.E. / Olga Tokarczuk
• The third shore / Natasza Goerke
• The men and the gentlemen / Gabriele Eckart
• Dance on the canal / Kerstin Hensel
• Lady with cowshit / Renata Šerelytė
• Pleasures of the saints / Nora Ikstẹna
• The mill ghost / Maimu Berg
• from Alchemy / Kärt Hellermaa.

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ISBN

• 0810123096 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780810123090 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810123118 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780810123113 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005013707

OCLC

60401711

RCP

H - S

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