An intersection of literary works on the question of how dictatorships are overcome, which emerged from a transnational project convening acclaimed writers. The generations, European countries of origin and artistic directions represented are both an advantage and a challenge reflected by this anthology. A considerable variety of motivations drove participants: putting into words a contemporary biography of persecution, a descendant's feeling of personal historical responsibility, or the artistic curiosity of the "outsider". The anthology is dedicated to the imaginative power of literature, and to Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe in particular. The formerly multicultural setting of these countries suffered the most from European dictatorships and their insufficiently processed legacies. The cultural transfer exhibited here will help reduce prejudices and promote new forms of understanding with Western Europe: it aims to further a diversified but common European culture.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Kristina Kaiserová and Gert Röhrborn: “The generation affected will have to see it through.” Literary paths out of dictatorship
- Astrid Köhler: On the role of language in commemorating, working through and overcoming dictatorship
- Sediments
- Wolfgang Templin: Lesen in der Diktatur - Schreiben in der Diktatur. Wolfgang Templin: Eine persönliche Spurensuche
- Wolfgang Templin: Reading and writing under dictatorships. A personal retracing
- Zsófia Balla: A képernyő imádása
- Zsófia Balla: Worshipping the screen
- Gabriel Chifu: Relatare despre moartea mea
- Gabriel Chifu: Report on my death
- Denisa Mirena Pişcu: Banane verzi puse la copt pe dulapuri
- Denisa Mirena Pişcu: Green bananas left to get ripe on cupboards
- Voids
- Eduard Vacek: Jak to bylo?
- Eduard Vacek: How all that happened?
- Jiří Dědeček: Odznak
- Jiří Dědeček: Badge
- Alessandro Tamburini: Il cielo che prima non c'era
- Alessandro Tamburini: The sky that wasn’t there before
- Time Travels
- Mikoláš Chadima: Rock a Diktatura. Příspěvek k roli hudby v komunistickém režimu bývalého Československa
- Mikoláš Chadima: Rock and dictatorship. The role of music in the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
- Lutz Rathenow: Alles Echos. Texte und Gedichte
- Lutz Rathenow: All echos. Essays and poems
- György Spiró: Verniszázs
- György Spiró: The Vernissage
- Olga Tokarczuk: Che Guevara
- Olga Tokarczuk: Che Guevara
- Biographies
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