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Katharina Raabe and Monika Sznajderman, the German-Polish duet of editors, after three-year pause edited a new compilation. The last time it was a volume about vanishing places along whole Europe entitled "Last and Lost" (Suhrkamp, 2006) to which roughly thirty writers contributed. This time the geography of book became clearer and more specified. The amazon.de describes this tome: "As space stations at the extreme end of the universe, the ancient Greek coastal cities appeared on the Black Sea. For thousands of years ago it signed the boundary between Europe and Asia, almost half a century between the Eastern bloc and Western alliance. The thin layer of organic life on a massive dead depth, two streams, the upper west, which attracts lower east - the mysterious sea actually symbolizes the tension, the contemporaneity of the non.
"Last & Lost", the atlas of vanishing Europe, followed by "Odessa Transfer", a journey to the limits of earlier empires, to places of exile and refuge. What arises here, between Constanta and Odessa, Yalta and Sochi, Batumi, and Istanbul, on the ruins of the ancient and recent history? In essays, literary stories and tales of the Black Sea region is visible challenge - as an area whose charm and destroyed the poetic imagination.
With essays by Neal Ascherson, Attila Bartis, Mircea Cartarescu, Nicoleta Esinencu, Karl-Markus Gauss, Katja Lange-Müller, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Aka Morchiladze, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Katja Petrovskaya, Andrzej Stasiuk, Takis Theodoropoulos and a photo essay by Andrzej Kramarz."
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