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← Back to all issuesGranta 149, Europe: Strangers in the Land
Autumn 2019
Essays and memoir by Katherine Angel, William Atkins, Tash Aw, Melitta Breznik, Lara Feigel, Joseph Leo Koerner, Andrew Miller, Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson, Elif Shafak and Adam Weymouth
Fiction by Anne Carson, Caroline Albertine Minor and Antonio Muñoz Molina
Poetry by Ken Babstock, Colin Herd and Peter Mishler
Photography by Bruno Fert and Nicola Lo Calzo, introduced by Nam Le and Daisy Lafarge
Plus a symposium on Europe, with responses from Marie Darrieussecq, Laurent Gaudé, Alicja Gescinska, Romesh Gunesekera, Michael Hofmann, Srećko Horvat, Tom McCarthy, Orhan Pamuk, Jacqueline Rose and Ludmila Ulitskaya
Cover image © Luke Bird
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Tom McCarthy | On Europe
Tom McCarthy
‘Like theatre itself, Europe is a contraption, a machine.’
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Office of Lost Moments
Antonio Muñoz Molina
‘I walk, or I ride the subway. All my worries and obsessions are dissolved in ceaseless observation.’ Translated from the Spanish by Guillermo Bleichmar.
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Visitors Rev. 4
Anne Carson
‘I descend to confront – a visitor! After the jam? I think so. Or the gin.’
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Alicja Gescinska | On Europe
Alicja Gescinska
‘Europe has proved to be at its best when it embraced unity in diversity.’
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We Do Not Know Each Other
Lara Feigel
‘Is that what family is for? Helping you to understand what formed you?’
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Ludmila Ulitskaya | On Europe
Ludmila Ulitskaya
‘It seems clear to me that during the past ten years, Russia has reached the apex of its estrangement from Europe.’ Translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon.
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On Being French and Chinese
Tash Aw
‘We were trapped in a sort of double prison: by poverty in Europe, and by China and its expectations of us.’
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Itinerant
Andrew Miller
‘Was this an adventure or was I in trouble? At what point did one begin to shade into the other?’
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Michael Hofmann | On Europe
Michael Hofmann
‘For all its flimsiness, the cage takes itself terribly seriously, restricting access, glorying in the name of Fatherland.’
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The Poetics of Trauma
Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson
Swedish poet and psychoanalyst Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson on trauma, silence and linguistic analysis of asylum seekers. Translated from the Swedish by Peter Graves.
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Orhan Pamuk | On Europe
Orhan Pamuk
‘In the part of the world where I come from, Europe is not just an ideal and a beautiful dream’ Translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
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My Chequered Europe
Melitta Breznik
‘A Europe of different languages, landscapes and cultures, all of which have retained their characters.’ Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins.
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Srećko Horvat | On Europe
Srećko Horvat
‘We are the ones who are responsible for not repeating the mistakes of the past.’
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Laurent Gaudé | On Europe
Laurent Gaudé
‘Fervent social awareness and civic passion have deserted today’s Europe.’ Translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
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Exile
Elif Shafak
‘The first time I heard the word exile – sürgün – in Turkish, I was a child. It struck me how closely it rhymed with another word: hüzün – melancholy.’
