Best European Fiction 2010
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Ornela Vorpsi: excerpt from The Country Where No One Ever Dies © Actes Sud, 2004. Translation © 2009 by Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck.
Michal-Witkowski: “Didi,” excerpt from Lubiewo (Lovetown) © 2009 by Portobello Books. Translation © 2009 by W. Martin.
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MICHAL AJVAZ The Other City
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IVAN NGELO The Celebration The Tower of Glass
DAVID ANTIN Talking
ANTÓNIO LOBO ANTUNES Knowledge of Hell
ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON Theatre of Incest
JOHN ASHBERY AND JAMES SCHUYLER A Nest of Ninnies
HEIMRAD BÄCKER transcript
DJUNA BARNES Ladies Almanack Ryder
JOHN BARTH LETTERS Sabbatical
DONALD BARTHELME The King Paradise
SVETISLAV BASARA Chinese Letter
MARK BINELLI Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!
ANDREI BITOV Pushkin House
LOUIS PAUL BOON Chapel Road My Little War Summer in Termuren
ROGER BOYLAN Killoyle
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BONNIE BREMSER Troia: Mexican Memoirs
CHRISTINE BROOKE-ROSE Amalgamemnon
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MEREDITH BROSNAN Mr. Dynamite
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JULIETA CAMPOS The Fear of Losing Eurydice
ANNE CARSON Eros the Bittersweet
CAMILO JOSÉ CELA Christ versus Arizona The Family of Pascual Duarte The Hive
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MARC CHOLODENKO Mordechai Schamz
EMILY HOLMES COLEMAN The Shutter of Snow
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RENÉ CREVEL Putting My Foot in It
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NIGEL DENNIS Cards of Identity
PETER DIMOCK A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family
ARIEL DORFMAN Konfidenz
COLEMAN DOWELL The Houses of Children Island People Too Much Flesh and Jabez
ARKADII DRAGOMOSHCHENKO Dust
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GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Bouvard and Pécuchet
KASS FLEISHER Talking out of School
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JON FOSSE Melancholy
MAX FRISCH I’m Not Stiller Man in the Holocene
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ETIENNE GILSON The Arts of the Beautiful Forms and Substances in the Arts
C. S. GISCOMBE Giscome Road Here Prairie Style
DOUGLAS GLOVER Bad News of the Heart The Enamoured Knight
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ A Kind of Testament
KAREN ELIZABETH GORDON The Red Shoes
GEORGI GOSPODINOV Natural Novel
JUAN GOYTISOLO Count Julian Juan the Landless Makbara Marks of Identity
PATRICK GRAINVILLE The Cave of Heaven
HENRY GREEN Back Blindness Concluding Doting Nothing
JIÍ GRUŠA The Questionnaire
GABRIEL GUDDING Rhode Island Notebook
JOHN HAWKES Whistlejacket
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JACQUES JOUET Mountain R Savage
CHARLES JULIET Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde
MIEKO KANAI The Word Book
HUGH KENNER The Counterfeiters Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians Joyce’s Voices
DANILO KIS Garden, Ashes A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
ANITA KONKKA A Fool’s Paradise
GEORGE KONRÁD The City Builder
TADEUSZ KONWICKI A Minor Apocalypse The Polish Complex
MENIS KOUMANDAREAS Koula
ELAINE KRAF The Princess of 72nd Street
JIM KRUSOE Iceland
EWA KURYLUK Century 21
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VIOLETTE LEDUC La Bâtarde
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ROSA LIKSOM Dark Paradise
OSMAN LINS Avalovara The Queen of the Prisons of Greece
ALF MAC LOCHLAINN The Corpus in the Library Out of Focus
RON LOEWINSOHN Magnetic Field(s)
BRIAN LYNCH The Winner of Sorrow
D. KEITH MANO Take Five
MICHELINE AHARONIAN MARCOM The Mirror in the Well
BEN MARCUS The Age of Wire and String
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DAVID MARKSON Reader’s Block Springer’s Progress Wittgenstein’s Mistress
CAROLE MASO AVA
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AMANDA MICHALOPOULOU I’d Like
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RALPH J. MILLS, JR. Essays on Poetry
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OLIVE MOORE Spleen
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1 Antonín Panenka, taking the last penalty for the Czech team in a penalty shoot-out during the final of the 1976 European Championship, fooled the German goalkeeper into diving for a save, before chipping the ball into the centre of the net. (Translators’ note—henceforth TN. All other notes are the author’s, consisting exclusively of citations of other works, although originally without bibliographical details or page numbers. We have provided full references to English translations where appropriate.)
2 Hurst scored his second goal of the 1966 World Cup final from inside the penalty box in extra time, striking the ball upwards with his right foot. The ball hit the crossbar and bounced down, and was only awarded when the linesman confirmed that the ball had crossed the line. (TN)
3 Zidane retired from international football after France lost to Greece in the quarterfinals of the 2004 European Championship, but announced his comeback a year later. In 2006 he received a yellow card during France’s group stage match against South Korea, and so missed France’s next game against Togo, a match that, had it been lost, would have seen France eliminated from the tournament. (TN)
4 Jean-Philippe Toussaint, The Bathroom, trans. Nancy Amphoux and Paul De Angelis, Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008, p. 37.
5 Ibid., p. 42 (translation modified—TN).
6 Jean Starobinski, “L’Encre de la mélancolie”, Nouvelle Revue Française 11.1 (No. 123, March 1963), p. 411 (our translation—TN).
7 Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood, Penguin Freud Library Vol. 14: Art and Literature, trans. James Strachey, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990, p. 155 (translation modified—TN).
8 Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter, trans. Edith R. Farrell, Dallas, Texas: Pegasus Foundation, 1983, p. 102.
*Slovak: I’m a lazy woman.
*Slovak: I’ve already found my stud…
*German: I’m tired today, leave me alone.
*German: Save your money, save your money, Didi! You need to save money!
*German: Goddamn queers! Goddamn queers!
*German: No business
†Russian: You understand?
‡Russian: Sweetie [little bird]?
*Slovak: I don’t understand it.