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L’inizio e la sua eternità

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Jessica Rostro Benigno
Written in Dutch by Corinne Heyrman
9 minutes read

Гей, дівчата (It’s Both Heaven and Hell Here. Moldova: a Century of Lived History)

Translated from Romanian to Ukranian by Paulina-Ionela Onujec
Written in Romanian by Paula Erizanu
6 minutes read

De leerschool

Translated from Portugese to Dutch by Anne Lopes Michielsen
Written in Portugese by Valério Romão
6 minutes read

Provázky

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Veronika Horáčková
Written in Dutch by Hannah Roels
7 minutes read

Alle dieren van het veld

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Joep Harmsen
Written in Spanish by Adriana Murad Konings
9 minutes read

Bilo je nekoč na Krimu

Translated from Ukranian to Slovenian by Rina Pleteršek
Written in Ukranian by Anastasia Levkova
9 minutes read

Tři!

Experimentální román Tři! rozvíjí zkušenost terapeutického sezení, ve kterém se autobiografické motivy prolínají s jazykovou hrou, a do kterého úmyslně vstupuje ta, která se vyprávěním snaží znovu vynalézt sebe sama. Komentáře terapeuta motivují cestu tohoto pátrání po identitě, vedoucího stále hlouběji, až na hranici disociace. Muž a žena v jedné osobě, ale i muž a žena vedle sebe, usilují o splynutí, a vedou tak otevřenou polemiku s autenticitou, rodem i narací. „Možná to bylo v babiččině spíži, když jsem si prohlížela sklenici s kečupem, na kterém bylo na bílém podkladě napsáno modře: jemný. Možná to byla jen ta schopnost všímat si detailů.“ Vzpomínky odhalované ve snaze pojmenovat jedno dospívání odráží i prostou zkušenost sídliště, chudoby, ale i dětství v druhé polovině devadesátých let na malém městě, či následný přechod do Prahy na studium filosofie, která je vším jiným než konejšivou utěšitelkou. „Kdo ztrácí kontakt s hmotou, přijde nakonec o všechno.“
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
6 minutes read

Iskreno, ljubica, briga me

Translated from Czech to Slovenian by Vesna Dragar
Written in Czech by Lucie Faulerová
7 minutes read

Preparirati telo

Translated from Dutch to Slovenian by Nika Štrovs
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

wypychanie ciała

Translated from Dutch to Polish by Olga Niziołek
Written in Dutch by Nikki Dekker
7 minutes read

Vita a metà

Translated from Dutch to Italian by Francesco Panzeri
Written in Dutch by Aya Sabi
8 minutes read

Eu não era, mas agora sou. Sensível a qualquer mudança do tempo.

Translated from Serbian to Portugese by Ilija Stevanovski
Written in Serbian by Marija Pavlović
9 minutes read

¡Tres!

Translated from Czech to Spanish by Enrique Gutiérrez
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
8 minutes read

Notatki z życia Frances Donnell

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

Отхвърлената

Translated from Italian to Bulgarian by Brigitte Mancuso
Written in Italian by Valeria Usala
9 minutes read

Три!

Translated from Czech to Ukranian by Olha-Anastasiia Futoran
Written in Czech by Anna Luňáková
7 minutes read

Monsterboom Boomjongen

Translated from Spanish to Dutch by Heleen Oomen
Written in Spanish by Mariana Torres
10 minutes read

Di me non sai

Lucio falls in love with "the boy" even before meeting him: just watching him from the window of his office is enough for him to become almost obsessed. When they finally meet, he discovers that Davide is much younger than him (still studying), and that he is elusive, unreliable, and "cruel" in the way only twenty-year-olds can be cruel. For two months, Lucio and Davide have dinner together, have sex, go to the beach, and often sleep at Lucio's place. However, Davide does not fall in love. He continues to seek Lorenzo, the only man he (perhaps) truly loved, of whom he keeps only a pixelated photo on an old cellphone. Like many twenty-year-olds, he is also confused, wounded, and willing to nestle into the routine of always having a Coca-Cola ready for him in the refrigerator. "Di me non sai" tells the story of a relationship lived in an opposite, incompatible way, whose nature is revealed to the reader only as the novel progresses. Alternating the perspectives of the two protagonists in short, sometimes very short chapters, Raffaele Cataldo shows the misalignment of feelings and the painful consequences it can have, the slow pace of hot Apulian summers, and the obsessive loves (present and absent) that, like wild oat seeds, cling to hair, shoes, and clothes.
Written in Italian by Raffaele Cataldo
4 minutes read

Ptice ne preletavajo primestnih naselij

Translated from Serbian to Slovenian by Natalija Milovanović
Written in Serbian by Ana Marija Grbic
8 minutes read

Město ze střepů

Translated from Dutch to Czech by Barbora Genserová
Written in Dutch by Hanan Faour
7 minutes read
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