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Alone With the World

Portraits of the struggle to find belonging in a world that feels unfamiliar

Platýs

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Blanka Konečná
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Wszystkie zwierzęta polne

Translated from Spanish to Polish by Katarzyna Górska
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
7 minutes read

El silencio es lo primero

Translated from Romanian to Spanish by Borja Mozo
Written in Romanian by Ioana Maria Stăncescu
9 minutes read

ARRIVALS / GELIȘ (Медолюб)

Translated from Dutch to Ukranian by Olga Bondarenko
Written in Dutch by Tülin Erkan
6 minutes read

Revolta inversă

Written in Romanian by Cătălin Pavel
10 minutes read

Podul

Translated from Portugese to Romanian by Simina Popa
Written in Portugese by João Valente
9 minutes read

Encuentracosas: 44 objetos (in)usuales de cerca y lejos

Como sugiere su subtítulo, el libro Encuentracosas contiene historias sobre 44 objetos de cerca y lejos. La curiosa y variada selección, ordenada temáticamente, incluye sorprendentes hallazgos de todo el mundo: Botas de Bután, losetas de Barcelona diseñadas por Gaudí, copas de vino del País Vasco, un broche en forma de corazón de Sarajevo, alpargatas de los Pirineos, escarabajos del antiguo Egipto, un cubo de basura de Nueva York, un trozo de tela naranja de los muelles flotantes del lago Iseo, una campana de dragón eslovena, un mapa de Berlín del Este y mucho más. Al narrar las historias de estos objetos concretos, Ekaterina Petrova cuenta en realidad las historias de los lugares de los que proceden —Kustendorf y Katmandú, Liubliana y Luisiana, Belvedere y Bilbao, Selcuk y Central Park—, situándolos al mismo tiempo en un contexto lingüístico, cultural, histórico, antropológico o geográfico más amplio. Los textos, una ingeniosa mezcla entre cuaderno de viaje, ensayo y relato corto, están cuidadosamente elaborados y repletos de curiosidades, pero refractados a través de la perspectiva subjetiva de la autora, así como de su biografía personal como viajera, traductora y encuentracosas. La maquetación del libro, realizada con el ojo estético de Lyuba Haleva, una de las ilustradoras búlgaras contemporáneas más destacadas, capta de forma espléndida y humorística el espíritu y el carácter de los relatos. De esta forma, el propio libro se convierte en un objeto bello, placentero y alegre, para leer y releer; un libro que poseer y regalar.

Translated from Bulgarian to Spanish by Marco Vidal
Written in Bulgarian by Ekaterina Petrova
10 minutes read

Manoeuvre

Written in Dutch by Simone Atangana Bekono
8 minutes read

Toți pe lume frați noi suntem

Translated from Dutch to Romanian by Irina Kappelhof Costea
Written in Dutch by Yelena Schmitz
8 minutes read

Цветове на лотос, които се затварят (когато влезеш в тях) (Пътят на перцепциониста)

Translated from Serbian to Bulgarian by Tsvetomira Mladenova
Written in Serbian by Nikola Lekić
6 minutes read

Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Translated from Czech to Dutch by Annette Manni
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
8 minutes read

Sonia ridică mâna

Written in Romanian by Lavinia Braniște
6 minutes read

Samochód ze starożytnej Grecji

Translated from Czech to Polish by Agata Wróbel
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
9 minutes read

Bomba, ki je razsvetlila noč v Marãu

Translated from Portugese to Slovenian by Maruša Fakin
Written in Portugese by Daniela Costa
8 minutes read

Diario de un último día

Translated from Dutch to Spanish by Irene de la Torre
Written in Dutch by Lotte Lentes
9 minutes read

Um carro da Grécia antiga

Translated from Czech to Portugese by Stepanka Lichtblau
Written in Czech by Ondrej Macl
11 minutes read

Het gaat over

Written in Dutch by Maud Vanhauwaert
8 minutes read

Sinossi

Written in Italian by Arianna Giorgia Bonazzi
4 minutes read

Doma

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Lisa Weeda
6 minutes read

I onda opet, iz početka

Centralni lik novog romana Filipa Grujića je pravi „junak našeg doba“, mladić na prelasku iz dvadesetih (kada se sve prašta i ništa nije konačno) u tridesete (kada sve postaje obavezujuće i ozbiljno), upravo izašao iz duge veze s nejasnom idejom šta želi od života.

Njegova svakodnevica rastrzana između porodice (razvedeni otac i majka, njihovi novi partneri i vremešni, ali vrlo živopisni roditelji), prijatelja, devojaka i obaveza, komične epizode, snažan autoironijski ton i bolno iskrena promišljanja o tome šta uopšte znači biti srećan u trećoj deceniji XXI veka, sve su to delovi kompleksne ali majstorski složene literarne slagalice koju bez preterivanja možemo nazvati prvim pravim, ozbiljnim milenijalskim romanom u srpskoj književnosti.

Filip Grujić posle dva zapažena romana kojima je nagovestio veliki književni talenat ovim delom sazreva u jednog od najboljih pripovedača koje naša književnost ima, prestaje da bude samo njena svetla budućnost i postaje važna i nezaobilazna sadašnjost.

Written in Serbian by Filip Grujić
8 minutes read
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