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Alter ego : twenty confronting views on the European experience / European Cultural Foundation ; general ed., Guido Snel.

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Alter ego : twenty confronting views on the European experience / European Cultural Foundation ; general ed., Guido Snel.

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"Alter Ego presents twenty perspectives on Europe and its other(s), from both inside and outside the EU, from the acceding states and from the new neighbour countries. Writers, poets, scientists, artists, and politicians whose life and work are indistinguishable from Europe and yet often offer the vantage point of an outsider. Twenty individuals who by virtue of their talent, craft or profession are seasoned mediators between various milieus, backgrounds, and languages. Their stories make Europe palpable on the individual level."--BOOK JACKET.

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Preface -- the European Cultural Foundation -- Foreword / Robert Maclennan -- A guide to Alter ego / Guido Snel -- 1. Beauty and the East -- A tale from the wild East / Goran Stefanovski -- Luxurious madness / Jachym Topol -- Ego with alter ego / Emil Tode -- Me, the mirror and I / Yuri Andrukhovych -- An interview with myself / David Albahari -- 2. Heimat and its (dis)contents -- Dreaming of friends, living with foes / Ales Debeljak -- The right to feel at home -- an interview with Jaak Aaviksoo -- Heimat / Marlene Streeruwitz -- The enlargement takes place in the centre of Europe -- an interview with Erhard Busek -- The corpse under the table -- an interview with Istvan Eorsi -- 3. Intimate geographies -- A past retrieved -- an interview with Eva Hoffman -- In the reflected light of the alter ego or : the splendour and misery of my identity / Nelly Bekus Goncharova -- Eurotic I / Saviana Stanescu -- We are the past of Europe -- an interview with Andrei Plesu -- Alter (the) ego / Ademir Arapovic -- 4. The uses of diversity -- Devin Aladag's alter egos -- Nevin Aladag interviews herself -- Mother tongue, stepmother tongue -- an interview with Abdelkader Benali -- How European / Peter Zilahy -- The point of the commonality of cultures -- an interview with Sami Zubaida -- The saga of the feel-good strudel (a family apocrypha) / Damir Sodan.

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