Unbound Europe

[andrew wachtel]

For all of you beginning to think about course planning for next year, two
new volumes in the "Writings from an Unbound Europe" series at Northwestern
University Press will be of interest.

"The Third Shore. Women's Fiction from East Central Europe" edited by Agata
Schwartz and Luise von Flotow contains short stories by twenty-five women
from eighteen different nations ranging from Lithuania to Ukraine to Poland,
the Czech Republic, Romania, Albania, and Slovenia, The Third Shore brings
to light a whole spectrum of women's literary accomplishment and experience
virtually unknown in the West. Gracefully translated, and with an
introduction that establishes their political, historical, and literary
context, these stories written in the decade after the fall of the Iron
Curtain are tales of the familiar-of illness and death, love and desire,
motherhood and war, feminism, and patriarchy-reconceived and turned into
something altogether new by the distinctive experience they reflect. This
volume is already available.

Coming out in July is the first anthology of Albanian modern literature ever
published in English.  Selected and translated by Robert Elsie, "Balkan
Beauty, Balkan Blood" provides an excellent introduction to the contemporary
Albanian literary scene.

SEELANGERS can get these and all the other 50 or so titles in the "Unbound
Europe" series at a 25% discount if they order directly from the Press.  All
you have to do is enter the code UE at the end of your order under the block
that says "comments, special instructions."




Andrew Wachtel
Dean, The Graduate School
Bertha and Max Dressler  Professor in the Humanities
Director, Center for International and Comparative Studies
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208

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