A journey through the psyche of Europe

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_Europsyched [working title]

_About

An experimental project that aims to bring me some new perspectives and points of view from different corners of Europe. I am looking for ways to distance myself a bit from the American influence on art and culture in my life.

This reading journey maps the fractured psyche of Europe through voices that echo across its East, West, and in-between. From the absurd loneliness of post-Soviet Kyiv to the melancholic memoryscapes of Sofia, from the raw wounds of the Balkans to the ironic disillusionment of Western capitals, I am looking at stories that unravel personal and collective identities shaped by history, trauma, migration, and survival. It's not a quest for answers, but for recognition, resonance, and reclaiming meaning in the ruins and rituals of everyday life. Through humour, grief, and clarity, this journey reads the continent and reads me back into it.

_Reading journey

In order of reading them:

★ Georgi Gospodinov (2023). Time Shelter. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. // Bulgaria
★ Elif Shafak (2022). The Island of Missing Trees. Penguin. // Cyprus
★ Andrey Kurkov (2011, first published 1996). Death and the Penguin. Melville House. // Ukraine
★ Patrik Ouředník and Turner, G. (2005). Europeana : a brief history of the twentieth century. Normal Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press. ‌// Czech Republic

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