About us
Literature plays a great part in learning about the cultures of each
other. Thanks to the efforts of literary translators, literature is
transmitted from one language to the other. The Visegradliterature.net
offers only a glimpse into the huge bulk of literary translations, but
if you click on the MATRIX MAP on the top of the page, you can
start your literary adventure enjoying the literatures of Visegrad countries in
your mother tongue!
If you look for an author, a particular
literary work or keyword, please find the SEARCH function on the very
bottom of the home page.
Have you had any questions/ideas/enquiries about the Babelmatrix, feel free to CONTACT US: contact@babelmatrix.org
or copyright@visegradliterature.net
We offer short excerpts only as Visegradliterature.net is intended
for reading from display or printing a few pages. You can find links at
most of the excerpts to online bookstores in case you wanted to read
the entire literary work.
A new online literary anthology |
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A new website has been launched with some 200 authors and a total of over 1000 texts comprising the best writing from Visegrád Group nations for online access in Hungarian, Slovakian, Czech, Polish, English and German. |
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"A watershed venture", the project’s international coordinator and editor-in-chief of Hungarian Lettre, Éva Karádi commented on the launch of www.visegradliterature.net,
declaring the webpage a gateway to one another’s language and culture
as well as potentially relieving the linguistic isolation of Hungarian
literature in particular.
"In Europe we have many
coexisting languages. Yet for some reason we keep using English. Now is
our chance to get acquainted with the languages of our neighbours. And
this project can also be thought of as an exciting intellectual game”,
Éva Karádi added.
Visitors to the website can
browse through texts from some 200 classical and contemporary authors,
and may even compare the different translations. Besides the texts, the
website also features biographies of the authors, as well as the
English- and German-language reception of some of the works.
The project emerged from the multilingual portal Babelmatrix run by Budapest’s Typotex Publishing House, where prominent Hungarian
literary works are available for reading in English, Czech, Dutch,
Polish, German, Russian and Portuguese languages. Typotex manager
Zsuzsa Votisky tells us that the new website is a fully fledged project
within Babelmatrix, but the network is being developed constantly. "The
internet has developed considerably since the launch of Babelmatrix,
and even those who once doubted its success now see a future in it",
Zsuzsa Votisky commented.
Babelmatrix is
currently owned by Typotex, but the publishing house plans to involve
international partners in the future. "Those we worked together with on
www.visegradliterature.net enjoyed the project, and were sad to see the work conclude. It is my
hope to get new partners involved within a year or two", Zsuzsa Votisky
added.
Éva Karádi agrees that expansion will be
necessary. This way Europe’s linguistic diversity will cease to be a
barrier, but finally prove to be an opportunity for mutual
understanding.
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