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The following essay explores the theme of remembrance as a question of identity in Doron Rabinovici’s novel Suche nach M. The Austria Jewish author concentrates on the quest for self-determination through various means, which are determined by generational differences. While the generation of survivors sees remembrance of the Holocaust as a moment of silence, their children commemorate it through masquerades or carnivals. Rabinovici’s novel, with its emphasis on a collective search for identity, is an exemplary contributionto Holocaust literature as a re-elaboration of Jewish cultural biblical tradition., Studia austriaca, Vol 20 (2012)

This introductory analysis on the subject of werewolves in the Greek and Roman worlds in its legendary, mythical, scientific and medical dimension emphasizes an intrinsic combination of negative and positive aspects, human and non-human factors, and ancient and modern components, laying the groundwork for the study of the gendered duplicity of the werewolf's Self in the modern and contemporary literature of southern and northern Italy. In this presentation of the werewolf motif on the Italian literary panorama from the 19th to the 21st century through an overview of short stories and novels, we will examine the writers who have combined ancient rural legends with metropolitan reveries to underscore the complexity and obscure double life of the werewolf.

Rezension zu Monika Straňáková: Literarische Grenzüberschreitungen. Fremdheits- und Europa-Diskurs in den Werken von Barbara Frischmuth, Dževad Karahasan und Zafer Şenocak. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2009

This short essay should be considered not only a basic introduction and first step in my project here at the Academy, but also as the final phase of the research work I finished on Hermann Broch and his intellectual contextualization. What I would like to present now is the profound parallelism that can be noted between Broch and Giuseppe Antonio Borgese if we investigate the various aspects of their personalities and their literary production.