Contemporary European Literature

Fiction. This is the story of the Willoweed family and the English village in which they live. It begins mid-flood, ducks swimming in the drawing-room windows, "quacking their approval" as they sail around the room. "What about my rose beds?" demands Grandmother Willoweed... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop. An intimate portrait of Paul Celan in his last, increasingly dark years. Paul Celan and Jean Daive translate each other, walk, talk. Tensions, silences and, discreetly, Celan's crises and suicide... read more

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson. In this, her first single-volume collection to be published in English, Aase Berg works a wicked necromancy in her poems. Filling each page with fluids and viscera she plunges into the palpable, pulsating center of our psyche—pulling up fistfuls of nightmares at once strange and familiar... read more

Poetry. Translated from the Slovenian by Sonja Kravanja. Tomaž Šalamun wrote the poems collected in ON THE TRACKS OF WILD GAME [Po sledeh divjadi] in a time of personal crisis during the politically repressive years of the 1970s. It was with this book, which saw its first publication in 1979, that Šalamun made a complete transformation in moving from art-making to poetry... read more

Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson. Aase Berg's TRANSFER FAT (Forsla fett), nominated in 2002 for Sweden's prestigious Augustpriset for the best poetry book, is a haunting amalgamation of languages and elements—of science, of pregnancy, of whales, of the naturally and unnaturally grotesque—that births things unforeseen and intimately alien... read more

Poetry. Translated from the German by Nicholas Grindell. With linguistic sophistication and a great deal of self-irony and humor, Rinck sets in tension the most disparate ideas "along with their margins." Her tonal register shifts from harsh to vulnerable, from formal to casual and playful, from mockery to dreaminess... read more

Poetry. Translated from the French by Peter Manson. THE POEMS IN VERSE is Peter Manson's translation of The Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé. Long overshadowed by Mallarmé's theoretical writings and by his legendary visual poem "Un coup de Dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard," the Poésies are lyrics of a uniquely prescient and generative modernity... read more

The Vanishing Point That Whistles: An Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Poetry by Paul Doru Mugur, Adam J Sorkin, and Claudia Serea (2011)... read more

Fiction. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. "With the calm strangeness of dreams, and humor deepened by a hint of melancholy, these wonderful stories fool around on the frontiers of the imagination... read more

Fiction. LGBT Studies. Translated from the Slovenian by Erica Johnson Debeljak. LOST STORY is the celebrated novel by one of Europe's foremost gay writers. "A terrifying, fascinating, authentic account of the 'coolness' of a relaxed and fatalistic generation... read more

Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Christopher Sand-Iversen. What, or who, is THE FIELD? Martin Glaz Serup calls it "everybody's autobiography" and Joanna Drucker calls it a "cosmology of banalities." Cia Rinne says it "could be any average person living in a western society," while Dmitry Golynko says "maybe the field equals the inner mapping of human psychic activity... read more