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Europe 3D: Time, Space and Personality – the trans..
Europe 3D: Time, Space and Personality – the translation and promotion of high quality European literature about European culture (unity in diversity)
Start date: Nov 10, 2015,
End date: Nov 9, 2016
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FINISHED
If we take a look into Europe's past, we see diverse stories in which the most amazing is that no matter how the stories are tied to the story tellers’ identities, there has always been a cross-border issue. The new Europeans must not create a new mythology, because this mythology already exists: the old stories are re-told by modern writers. The stories are not new, but the way of thinking about them is.In the book of the Slovenian writer, A night in Europe, various travelers find a common wavelength during a Paris – Amsterdam train trip; or in the Finnish book, where, surprisingly, the city of Olomouc stays at the center of events. The Polish Szczepan Twardoch in Morphine describes a protagonist with several identities: Silesian, Polish, aristocratic and womanizer… In the historical novels life stories become relevant through the views of the modern narrators. The life story of J.S. Bach by the German Jens Johler and Hildegard von Bingen, the protagonist of the Danish Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen, are not such people, who have only local importance, but they play a key role in the European culture.On the other hand, we would like to continue what we had started with previous successful project applications, that is, to disseminate scientific thinking. The Estonian Andrus Kivirähk wrote his book as an anthropologist. The story is about the disappearance of a small nation. The Polish Sylwia Chutnik in her multi-awarded Pocket Female Atlas speaks about women as a sociologist.Seven of the ten authors, which are chosen now, are female, and we also pay attention to the fact that among the stories some are about women.By the contemporary writers and their sensitive personalities, the cross-country and cross-century stories were implemented in a surprisingly harmonious, consistent, European literature.