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| Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:14AM | | | | War and the Novel | Tags: Atxaga, Florian, Gavron, Rahimi, war, inspiration, Afghanistan, Gaza, Romania, Spanish Civil War
| | | The four writers Bernardo Atxaga of Spain, Assaf Gavron of Israel, Atiq Rahimi of France, Afghanistan and I wonder where else, and Filip Florian of Romania met in the cool confines of Scandinavia House and discussed in depth the sources of their inspiration.
It was a bit surprising at first to see these four male writers, flanked by their translators, all young women and the moderator Susan K, but the translators more than held their own.
Assaf Gavron, the one writer without a translator, began by reading from his novel CROCATTACK that begins on a bus. A woman has become suspicious of another rider and tries to engage the protagonist in seeing the other rider as a threat. Gavron's point was that... | | | | | |
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