Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- Shoreless Bridges / Elka Agoston-Nikolova -- Chinese Whispers / Goran Stefanovski -- Un-lost in Translation / Tzveta Sofronieva -- Telemachus’s Dream / Dubravka Ugrešić -- The Temptation of National Identity: The Case of Grigor Părličev / Raymond Detrez -- Bulgarian Émigrés and Their Literature: A Gaze from Home / Nikolaj Aretov -- The Other Road. On the Bulgarian Topos in the Work of Three Writers Awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize / Penka Angelova -- The Water under the Bridge: Tzveta Sofronieva’s Der alte Mann, das Meer, die Frau / Chantal Wright -- Goran Stefanovski – A Playwright in the Tower of Babel / Goce Smilevski -- Fragments Between Desire and Nostalgia: A Macedonian Case / Maja Bojadžievska -- Translating Dubravka Ugrešić and David Albahari / Ellen Elias-Bursać -- Exile or Exodus: D. Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Iliya Troyanov’s The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner / Dimitar Kambourov -- Contributors.

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Exiles cross borders, become non-mainstream individuals and break through barriers of thought and experience. Forced or chosen detachment can lead to originality of vision, awareness of simultaneous dimensions – in short a writing that challenges boundaries of genre, monolingualism and national literatures. The writers of the Balkan (Slavic) diaspora offer narratives of critical reflection, strange fusions and unions, representative of the new cultural identities of contemporary Europe. This volume presents an interesting combination of original writer’s essays (by Tzveta Sofronieva, Goran Stefanovski, Dubravka Ugresic) and academic discussions on the function of such narratives, seeking answers to a number of academic questions, related to the construction of the Self in processes of cultural translation/transmission.