In a Portuguese site [
http://ffms.pt/xxi-ter-opiniao/artigo/664/uma-leitura-da-europa-ou-conrad-nabokov-lispector#login ]
José Tavares writes a note about "UMA LEITURA DA EUROPA OU: CONRAD, NABOKOV,
LISPECTOR" [2014 CRÓNICAS|EUROPA 12345(0)] in which he brings together Joseph
Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov and Clarice Lispector, writers who were born in Eastern
Europe (Berdichev, Ucraine; St. Petersburg; Tchetchelnik, Ucraine) to
inquire if it is possible to understand something about Europe by their writings
(in a second language), outside of Europe? (
Será possível entender algo da
Europa através destes três europeus daquele Leste que quase escorrega para fora
do sombreado das notas de euro, três escritores oriundos de uma Europa que
adormeceu brevemente para lá da Cortina de Ferro, que se transformam impelidos
por viagens extraordinárias para o outro, o outro europeu e o outro
extra-europeu?). I confess that the question seems to me rather vaguely
phrased and that I don't see many points in common between the
three.