Books as Round-The-World-Ticket: Today we head for France and England, Japan and Taiwan, Holland and Mauritius.
Particularly nice: a conversation about Charles Dickens’ 150th anniversary of death and one about the literary scene in Taiwan that is reawakening after Corona.
Victor Jestin also describes a hot summer in the south of France and Heinrich Heine the cholera in Paris. Roxane van Iperen tells the story of her home, where Jews were hiding during the Second World War, and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, of a family on the island of Mauritius.
We read many of these books in translation. That is why there is also a story from ancient Japan to hear: interpreting birds.
Victor Jestin: heat
From the French by Sina de Malafosse
Verlag Kein & Aber
157 pages
20 Euro
Review by Kathrin Hondl
Great love at second glance – Charles Dickens on the 150th anniversary of his death
(Interview with the Englishwoman Angelika Zirker)
“The interpreter”
From: “Japanese Fairy Tales”
Compiled by Christian Döring
The Other Library
16 Euro
(Read by Luise Wunderlich)
Never sleep again – Taiwan’s Corona literary scene
(Interview with the Sinologist Alice Grünfelder)
Sinologist Alice Grünfelder recommends reading:
Yang Mu: “The spider, the silverfish and me. Brush notes “
From the Chinese by Susanne Hornfeck and Jue Wang
A1 publishing house 2013
18,80 Euro
Jade Y. Chen: “The Island of the Goddess”
Munich Spring Publishing House 2008
19,90 Euro
Thilo Diefenbach (ed.): “Martial Law. New Taiwan Literature “
The trial Publisher 2017
34 Euro
Heinrich Heine: “I’m talking about cholera
A report from Paris from 1832 ”
Published by Tim Jung
Verlag Hoffmann and Campe
14 Euro
(Short review by Katharina Borchardt)
Roxane van Iperen: “A hiding place among enemies”
From Dutch by Stefan Wieczorek
Verlag Hoffmann & Campe
24 Euro
(Review & reportage by Eva Karnofsky)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio: „Alma“
From the French by Uli Wittmann
Publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch
25 Euro
(Review by Dina Netz)
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