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subscribe now at worldliteraturetoday.org Contents In Every Issue | 03 Editor’s Note | 05 Notebook | 13 Editor’s Pick | 53 World Literature in Review | 80 Outpost november– december 2014 cover feature After the Wall Fell Dispatches from Central Europe 1989–2014 with contributions from Jenny Erpenbeck Julia Fiedorczuk Tomas Venclova with Ellen Hinsey Nina Kokelj Ana Blandiana Milena Michiko Flašar Constantin Severin Durs Grünbein Esther Dischereit Raoul Schrott Kerstin Hensel Kurt Drawert Nora Gomringer David Williams on Sofi Oksanen Szilárd Borbély On the Cover German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck photographed by Katharina Behling. “On the other side of the wall and the guard towers lies, quite simply, the death-zone, collapse, néant. A void at the very heart of the continent. Finis Europae.” – Tomas Venclova (1979) for more see page 33 48 28 30 33 37 38 40 43 44 45 45 46 46 47 48 51 WLT Interview 14 Mapping Life through Poetry A Conversation with Bruno Montané Krebs by ryan long Fiction 17 Measure Twice, Cut Once by Cate Kennedy departments Crime & Mystery 09 George Arion and the Quest for a Romanian Crime Writing by J. Madison Davis Poetry 12 Two Poems by Lul jeta Lleshanaku 22 Two Poems by Lawson Fusao Inada 24 Two Poems by Shahilla Shariff 05 30 25 Books That Inspired the World – the results! page 26 WorldLiteratureToday.org Online Extras Join the WLT community Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GoodReads, and Flickr to share ideas, view photos, and read book reviews. Facebook facebook.com/ worldlittoday Twitter @worldlittoday Pinterest @worldlit GoodReads goodreads.com/ worldlittoday Visit worldliteraturetoday.org for exclusive content you won’t want to miss, including web exclusives, photo galleries, blog posts, and much more. Bilingual audio poetry by Julia Fiedorczuk and Luljeta Lleshanaku @mschie_sb For stories to read with your (older) students, go & have a blast at worldliteraturetoday.org. @worldlittoday Thanks for the lush shorts. :) @Smart_Translate Looking for a quick escape or a quiet break? 5 #Translated Short Stories to Read with Your Lunch via @worldlittoday @unpoetaloco Still thankful 3 yrs later to the folks @worldlittoday for publishing my translation of "Fatima..." by Miguel Barnet. @SydneyVickars a fascinating article, Reading as a Social Activity in a Digital Era, from @worldlittoday @thisisEJKoh Blown away. Got to discuss #Korean #poetry, translation, and finding the heart in @worldlittoday @londonkoreanist Perfect #translationthurs fare @worldlittoday EJ Koh on translating Kim Myung Won: self-reflexivity & "sudden fire" @aldakalda Honored to be 1 of 25 writers asked by @worldlittoday to nominate a book: 25 #Books that Inspired the World 1989–2014 @loftliterary Children feel the brunt of war, yet are rarely heard. @ worldlittoday brings us their stories for readers of all ages. @kebowler Beyond great words, another reason to love @worldlittoday: #paper stock, cover & text, both elegant & dignified #design #printing @TonguesPress Raelke reviews @worldlittoday. if you're keen to discover international literature this mag is a great place to start Tweets Online Extras Look for these icons throughout the issue for information about exclusive content found only online at worldliteraturetoday.org. web exclusive photo gallery audio video Web Exclusive Find us on Flickr flickr.com/wltonline An essay by Necia Chronister on post-Wende lit, plus additional essays on Russian, Ukrainian, and East German writers Two New York poems by Swiss-German writer Kuno Raeber A short story by Polona Glavan (Slovenia) Web Exclusive Web Exclusive November–December 2014 • 3 editor’s note December 23, 1988. As our night train to Prague approached the town of České Velenice on the Czechoslovak border, I felt like I was riding the last train of the twentieth century —not glimpsing the twenty-first, but looking back at the nineteenth. Having embarked at the Franz Joseph station in Vienna, I imagined Mahler and Kafka riding this same train a century earlier; the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway had connected Vienna and Prague since the late 1860s, but its formal imperial splendor had long since faded. At the Czech border, searchlights swept the station from imposing watchtowers, concertina wire coiled atop fences along the quay, and the scenic vistas of the Noric Alps southwest of Vienna abruptly gave way to the flat chiaroscuro of communist Eastern Europe. Guards with machine guns and...