Barley Patch Central EuropeBarley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Using the form of an oblique self interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question "Must I write?" and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the
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Neven Ušumović [Croatia] Veresˇ
Peter van de Kamp
Brandão is the author of more than a half-dozen works of fiction
Espriu's rich lyricism and highly evocative use of the Catalan language are here brought to life in the poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips's remarkable English-language translation of a classic of world literature
400 terrified officials
A book in which I shall spit out my
and at least as philosophically minded as his author: “Everything has suddenly become so transparent that one can’t see through anything anymore
and an actor friend—attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning under the constant threat of air raids and starvation
from small-town dramas to tales of urban savagery
With an undercurrent of sensual excitement
an eager ten-year-old in search of a father