Research Catalog

Title

Best European fiction 2012 / edited and with introduction by Aleksandar Hemon ; preface by Nicole Krauss.

Publication

Champaign, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-
• Krauss, Nicole.

Description

xxiii, 459 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Now in its third year, the annual Best European Fiction anthology has become a mainstay in the literary landscape. For 2012, editor Aleksandar Hemon has organized the stories not by country but by theme (love, desire, family, thought, art home, work, evil). In his introduction, he tells us that the intention is to place the stories "in the situation of dialogue and to show what we have always known: the infinite variation of human experience, which can never be spent or diminished to a tweet, is the true and only domain of literature. What you can find in this book is not only great, relevant fiction, but also - and perhaps most importantly - a sense of kinship in the belief that human lives, thoughts, and feelings always matter." -- back cover.

Subjects

• Short stories
• Short stories, European

Genre/Form

Short stories.

Contents

Contents : Preface -- Introduction -- [LOVE] -- [Belgium : Dutch]. My hand is exhausted / Patricia De Martelaere -- [Croatia]. Zlatka / Maja Hrgović -- [Spain : Galician]. This strange lucidity / Agustín Fernández Pez -- [DESIRE] -- [Poland]. The sorrows of Idiot Augustus / Janusz Rudnicki -- [Ireland : Irish]. Everything emptying into white / Gabriel Rosenstock -- [ELSEWHERE] -- [Hungary]. When there were only animals / Zsófia Bán -- [Switzerland: Rhaeto-Romanic - German]. Sez ner / Arno Camenisch -- [Portugal]. Tourist destination / Rui Zink -- [WAR] -- [Georgia]. Before the end / David Dephy. -- [Ireland: English]. Kennedy / Desmond Hogan -- [Russia]. The telescope / Danila Davydov -- [THOUGHT] -- [Czech Republic]. I, Loshad' / Jiří Kratochvil -- [Estonia]. Logisticians anonymous / Armin Kõomägi -- [ART] -- [Slovakia]. Agnomia / Róbert Gál -- [France]. Juergen the Perfect Son-in-law / Marie Darrieussecq -- [Norway]. Down there they don't mourn / Bjarte Breiteig -- [MUSIC] -- [Bosnia and Herzegovina]. Magic and Sarajevo / Muharem Bazdulj -- [Iceland]. The ice people / Gerdur Kristný -- [CHILDREN] -- [Switzerland : French]. The children / Noëlle Revaz -- [United Kingdom : Scotland]. Enough to make your heart / Donal McLaughlin -- [Netherlands]. Pearl / Sanneke Van Hassel -- [FAMILY] -- [Finland]. Passiontide / Maritta Lintunen -- [United Kingdom : Wales]. Gibamy / Ducan Bush -- [Slovenia]. Memorinth / Branko Gradišnik -- [Serbia]. Without fear of change / Marija Knežević -- [HOME] -- [Liechtenstein]. Tomorrow it's Deggendorf / Patrick Boltshauser -- [Spain : Catalan]. Clara Bou / Pep Puig -- [CRISIS] -- [United Kingdom : England]. Catastrophe / Lee Rourke -- [Montenegro]. The coming / Andrej Nikolaidis -- [Switzerland : German]. The woman with the stocks / Michael Stauffer -- [WORK] -- [Spain : Castilian]. Today / Santiago Pajares -- [Ukraine]. The owners / Serhiy Zhadan -- [EVIL] -- [Germany]. The case of M. / Clemens Meyer -- [Belgium : French]. Rara Avis / Bernard Quiriny -- Index by author -- Index by country -- Author biographies -- Translator biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Rights and permissions.

Call Number

JFD 12-6019

ISBN

• 9781564786807
• 1564786803

OCLC

759860245

Title

Best European fiction 2012 / edited and with introduction by Aleksandar Hemon ; preface by Nicole Krauss.

Imprint

Champaign, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, ©2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Hemon, Aleksandar, 1964-

Krauss, Nicole.

Research Call Number

JFD 12-6019