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Even Muslim countries like Azerbaijan have people in their cities who pretty much only speak Russian. Armenia, for example, is a Christian country where everyone pretty much grew up with Russian and looks towards Europe and not Asia, and there are writers from there who write in Russian. I guess I'd probably agree that that wouldn't fit, that anything from beyond the Urals and south of the Caspian Sea wouldn't count. Though this would bring up another question of whether literature from Russia or the Soviet Union, but written by other ethnicities or natinalities, particularly near or far eastern ones, would count as 'Eastern European' literature too. This is not to mention numerous other minority languages that exist in Russia and elsewhere. Most of the central European 'Eastern European' area was in the Austro/Hungarian empire, where German dominated, and Hungarian had a major role too of course.

Kafka spoke and wrote in German, as did the community around him and to the north of his country.

Estonia again has a Uralic language, related to Finnish, and the other two are generally classed as 'Baltic', with 'archaic' Indo-European characteristics. The Baltic States, if you include them, which I'm sure you must, are not Slavic either. For further clarification I'd point out that Hungary is not Slavic, or even an Indo-European language, but a 'Uralic' language, pretty much of Asian, or on the border of Asia, origin. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Thanks, I'm glad you agree. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. The collected fiction of 'one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe' (Cynthia Ozick)īruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature.

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