Many stories of history - translation of seven boo..
Many stories of history - translation of seven books in Serbian
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
With this year project for a grant "Many stories of history", SEZAM BOOK would like to continue the new subject category of our publishing program - the European contemporary literature- that we started last year with the project for EACEA – Read in European.For this year's project, we were inspired by the quote of Pavol Rankov, about the motives to write his book that is included in our project: “I have the feeling that the little stories, the stories of real people, are closer to reality and truth than the big historical events. History (...) is overburdened with ideology, patriotism and things like that, while the stories – the oral history – of ordinary people are closer to reality and truth.”Not all of the seven books treat precisely the theme of history swirls and how the ordinary people can face them, survive and recuperate, but all of them show us the different possibilities of coping with the reality that sometimes is too cruel and too strange to be understood. And all of them are the messengers of humanity, reminders of the importance of the universal human values. That kind of message we would like to serve to our readers as the bridge for ideas and interpretations between cultures. For the implementation of this project, we intend to cooperate with foreign cultural centers and city libraries for the book promotions and first book readings, but also with the Faculty of Philology and Philosophy, inviting students and scholars to participate in the lectures and our promotional activities. We also intend to invite György Spiró for the first public reading of his books, and Pavol Rankov as a special guest during the Belgrade Book Fair in October 2015. In order to enhance the accessibility to translated works and our project, we included the e-books in our publishing program for the first time. All of our promotional activities related to the project will be visible on our web site and the Youtube channel.
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