Summary
River: a different Danube anthology
The Danube, one of Europe's great arteries, flows through more countries than any other river and has always inspired and challenged writers, like hardly any other. In the interaction of people and their stories along its course through the continent, it emerges as an axis of condensed meanings where diversity, contradictions and non-contemporary intertwine. The anthology is divided into 24 chapters that present texts grouped according to topics and places – such as sunken islands, bridges, cities, war, escape and others – and each chapter begins with an appropriate cultural and historical introduction. The most important writers of different languages and literature from the area along the Danube are represented; they reveal an astonishing variety and richness. Such multiple mirroring should be attributed to the peculiarities of the river itself, which flows through a landscape marked by historical fortifications and acts as an authentic European textbook. The introductory texts for the chapters were written by the editors: Edit Kiralj and Olivia Spiridon. The anthology contains texts by the following authors: Janos Arany, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gyula Krúdy, Bettina Balàka, Stefan Bănulescu, Jean Bart, Ludwig Bechstein, Karl Isidor Beck, Hans Bergel, Algernon Blackwood, Arnolt Bronnen, Elias Canetti, Mircea Cărtărescu, Oscar Walter Cisek, Tibor Cseres, Eva Demski, Heimito von Doderer, Mircea Eliade, Péter Esterházy, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Catalin Dorian. Florescu, Gerhard Fritsch, Ladislav Fuchs, Karl-Markus Gauß, Arno Geiger, Franz Grillparzer, Peter Handke, Mila Haugová, Klaus Hensel, Ferenc Herczeg, Franz Hodjak, Friedrich Hölderlin, Michal Hvorecky, Filip Florian, Nicolae lorga, Mór Jókai, Gert Jonke, Attila József, István Kemény, Alexander William Kinglake, Egon Erwin Kisch, Johann Georg Kohl, Mihály Kornis, Reinhart Koselleck, Claudio Magris, Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli, László Márton, Herta Müller, László Végel, Péter Nádas, Lajos Parti Nagy, Miloš Crnjanski, Andreas Okopenko, Aleksandar Tišma, Géza Ottlik, Danilo Kiš, Mihajlo Pantić, Judita Šalgo, David Albahari, Pavao Pavličić, Slobodan Tišma, Siniša Tucić, Milorad Pavić, Moritz Rinke, Szilárd Rubin, Klaus F. Schneider, Mirjana Novaković, Franz Hutterer, Solymos Ede, Karl Sokolowsky, Georgi Gospodinov, Panait Istrati, Andrzej Stasiuk, Adalbert Stifter, Carmen Sylva, Nick Thorpe, lIija Trojanow, Franz Tumler, Dániel Varró, Ivan Vasov, Richard Wagner, Horst Widmer and Vladimir Zarev.
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