Tag: foreign literature
Writing the Mother Tongue
aussenraum / outside area so many languages hide beneath your trees in the secret corners of your alleys and in the well which, in winter, is b …
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Open minds and aspirations
Aged seventeen, long before there was a phenomenon known as Brexit, I came across a friend reading Albert Camus’ The Outsider in a quiet corner at sch …
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The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction
A book of short stories is the perfect way to capture a city. Cities – especially such a vast and bewildering one like Tokyo – can’t be represented by …
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The Sea of Words: Language, Controversy and Subsidy
Language is the sea in which the world and we ourselves swim. In a fascinating book the Israeli novelist, Amos Oz and his co-author (and daughter) Fan …
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