The New Central and East European Culture. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Carmen Andras, and Magdalena Marsovszky. Aachen: Shaker Verlag
2006. 380 pages, Index, Bibliography. Euros 49.80. The volume is a collection of selected papers presented at an international conference, The Cultures of Post-1989 Central and East Europe <

Based on the conference held in Marosvásárhely (Targu Mures) Romania.
Contents: Carmen Andras, "Romania and Its Images in Contemporary British Literature"; Anca Baicoianu, "(Ab)uses of Memory in Postcommunism and Postcolonialism"; Milena Blazic, "Childhood in Anne Frank's and Zlata Filipovic's Diaries"; Iulian Boldea, "Autobiographical Writing and History in Post-1989 Romanian Literature"; Daniel Brett, "The Revival of Radical Movements in Poland and Romania since 1989"; Luminita Chiorean, "Codrescu and Retrospection on Poetic Identity"; Simion Costea, "Central and East Europe and the History of the European Union"; Roumiana Deltcheva, "Slavi's Show and Post-1989 Bulgarian Television Culture"; Ana Maria Dobre, "Traditions of the Centralist State and Post-1989 Romania"; Cristina Maria Dogot, "Central and East Europe, the State, and the Challenges of Modernity"; Thomas Dörfler, "About the Problematics between East Germany and West Germany"; Maria-Ana Georgescu, "Aspects of Interethnicity in Post-1989 Romania and Hungary"; Valentina Glajar, "The Czech-Sudeten German Conflict in post-1989 Literary and Filmic Narratives"; Bridget Guzner, "Post-1989 Central and East European Holdings of the British Library"; Monica Heintz, "Culture, Society, and Economic Crises in Post-1989 Romania"; Eva R. Hudecova, "Cosmopolitanism and Imagination in Central and East Europe before and after 1989"; Mihaela Irimia, "Chronotopes of Postcommunist Times"; Alexandru Dragos Ivana, "City Space, Bucharest, and the Location of Memory"; Neringa Klumbyte, "Village Communities and Remembering Socialism in Lithuania"; Endre Kukorelly, "Nine Passages on (Literary) Criticism in Hungary"; Erol Kulahci, "The European Union and Central and East European Socialist Parties"; Arina Lungu, "Memory and the Media in Post-1989 Central and East Europe"; Marin Marian-Balasa, "Music, Musicology, and Hungarian and Romanian Nationalisms"; Magdalena Marsovszky, "Cultural Essentialism and the Exclusion of the Other in Post-1989 Hungary"; Giuseppe Munarini, "The Greek-Catholic Church of Romania in Post-1989 Romanian and Italian Historiography and Media"; Roman Pasca, "Space, Time, and New Media in Post-1989 Romania"; Virgil Stanciu, "Translation in (Post-1989) Romania"; Archimandrite Pavel Stefanov, "Towards a History of Ethnic Minorities in Bulgaria after 1989"; Smaranda Stefanovici and Ramona Hosu, "Co-operation in Higher Education between Romania and the United Kingdom after 1989"; Arturas Tereskinas, "Sexual Minorities, Mass Media, and Civil Society in Post-communist Lithuania"; Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, "Central and East Europe, Kertész, and Memoir Literature"; and Louise O. Vasvári, "Sexual Discourse in Post-1989 Hungarian Literature. “

Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. Ed. Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Purdue Books in Comparative Cultural Studies 8. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. 340 pages, bibliography, index. US$ 39.95. Orders to < or 1-800-247-6553.
The volume contains studies on the oeuvre of Imre Kertész, Nobel Laureate in Literature 2002 as well as historical papers about the background of the Holocaust in Hungary by international scholars.
Contents: "Imre Kertész and Hungarian Literature" by Enikö Molnár Basa, "Jewishness in Hungary, Imre Kertész, and the Choice of an Identity" by Sara Cohen, "The Aporia of Imre Kertész" by Robert Eaglestone, "Imre Kertész, Hegel, and the Philosophy of Reconciliation" by Amos Friedland, "Identities of the Jew and the Hungarian" by András Gerö, "Representing the Holocaust, Kertész's Fatelessness, and Benigni's La vita Π bella" by Bettina von Jagow, "Imre Kertész's Fatelessness as Historical Fiction" by Julia Karolle, "Reading Imre Kertész in English" by Adrienne Kertzer, "Imre Kertész's Fatelessness and the Myth about Auschwitz in Hungary" by Kornélia Koltai, "The Historians' Debate about the Holocaust in Hungary" by András Kovács, "Imre Kertész and Hungary Today" by Magdalena Marsovszky, "Imre Kertész's Aesthetics of the Holocaust" by Sára Molnár, "The Dichotomy of Perspectives in the Work of Imre Kertész and Jorge Semprún" by Marie Peguy, "Imre Kertész and the Filming of Sorstalanság (Fatelessness)" by Catherine Portuges, "Danilo Kis, Imre Kertész, and the Myth of the Holocaust" by Rosana Ratkovcic, "Imre Kertész's Jegyzökönyv (Sworn Statement) and the Self Deprived of Itself" by Tamás Scheibner, "Imre Kertész's Kaddish for an Unborn Child" by Eluned Summers-Bremner, "Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize in Literature and the Print Media" by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, "Holocaust Literature and Imre Kertész" by Paul Várnai, "The Novelness of Imre Kertész's Fatelessness" by Louise O. Vasvári, and "The Media and Imre Kertész's Nobel Prize in Literature" by Judy Young. In addition to the papers about Kertész's work, the volume includes an as of yet in English unpublished text by Imre Kertész, "Galley Boat-Log (Gályanapló): Excerpt(s)" translated by Tim Wilkinson, a review article about books on Jewish Identity and anti-Semitism Central Europe by Barbara Breysach, and a "A Bibliography of Imre Kertész's Oeuvre and Publications about His Work" by Steven Tötösy.