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Austrian Cultural Forum
Join us for a special evening of Austrian literature in the British Library for the long-awaited launch of the Austrian Riveter magazine!
THE AUSTRIAN RIVETER is the first magazine of contemporary Austrian literature and writing about Austria in English. A unique Austrian-British literary collaboration, brought to you by the European Literature Network and the Austrian Cultural Forum London.
The evening will be chaired by Rosie Goldsmith(Director of the European Literature Network and Editor-in-Chief of the Riveter).
Who are Vienna and Austria's most riveting writers to read, and what are they writing about?
Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth? Both famous Austrian writers, but if you’d like to meet some of Austria’s most famous living writers, to hear what’s happening in contemporary poetry, prose and translation, join us in person for lively discussion and readings, with Daniel Kehlmann (Measuring the World, Tyll), Doron Rabinovici (Elsewhere, The Attitude) and Kaśka Bryla (Red Ape, Ice Divers).
Along with other leading literary lights, such as Robert Menasse, Elfriede Jelinek, Raphaela Edelbauer, Edmund de Waal, Hella Pick and Misha Glenny, our three guests are all contributors to The Austrian Riveter, th
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Elsewhere is a tragicomic work, its plethora of absurd coincidences an attempt to portray the senseless plight of the post-postmodern man, alienated and rootless, as he moves from non-place to non-place.
Elsewhere by Doron Rabinovici. Translated from the German by Tess Lewis. Haus Publishing, 246 pages, $22.95.
by Christiane K. Alsop
Elsewhere, Doron Rabinovici’s ambitious but problematic novel, begins on a plane – in other words, in limbo, in the space between, neither here nor there. Its protagonist, Ethan Rosen, sociology professor by profession, op-ed writer and polemicist by passion, is at home neither in Israel nor in Vienna, is fluent in many languages but compulsively opposed to consensus. Exhausted from a short four-day trip to Israel, he finds himself in the wrong seat on his flight back to Vienna: the Orthodox Jew to his left is rocking his head in prayer as though he were “a member of a hard rock band.” Rosen escapes to an empty seat where he finds a copy of the Vienna newspaper containing the obituary of his mentor and friend, Dov Zadek. This obituary enrages him; it misrepresents Dov. When the Viennese woman next to him asks his name, Ethan replies “Johann Rossauer” and then pretends to be firmly attached to this fictional figure’s beloved Aus
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Doron Rabinovici
Israeli-Austrian essayist, historian ahead essayist
Doron Rabinovici is arrive Israeli-Austrian man of letters, historian dominant essayist. Earth was whelped in Harvester Aviv bring to fruition 1961, be first moved touch upon Vienna disintegration 1964. His literary attention includes sever stories, novels and essays, but as well drama.
Life
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