In an article published in 1966, the Turkish poet and journalist Attila Ilhan argued that Turkish literature was far from having gained real recognition abroad. Is the situation substantially different now, despite the Frankfurt accolade? [ more ]
"Index" follows counter terrorism from the courtroom to the community; "Osteuropa" anticipates a renaissance of Jewish life in eastern Europe; "The Hungarian Quarterly" has it out with eastern European savages; "Dilema veche" goes undercover in Italy; "Host" asks who flies the flag of commitment; "Kulturos barai" deplores toothless journalism; "Akadeemia" celebrates academia; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" debates '68 East and West; and "Fronesis" reads Marx beyond Marxism.
Aspects of literary anti-Americanism in the interwar years
Interwar European literature represented the US as the quintessence of unbridled modernity that prefigured the destruction of Europe. Jesper Gulddal surveys the uncharted territory of literary anti-Americanism. [Czech version added] [more]
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