In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, NYRB Classics editor Edwin Frank will be discussing the literature of the Great War with professor Christopher Winks and translator Richard Greeman at The Commons in Brooklyn on Thursday, June 5, 2014.
For information about the discussion and the panelists, visit the The Commons event page here.
NYRB Classics recently published Gabriel Chevallier’s novel of World War I, Fear and will be publishing Hungarian artist Béla Zombory-Moldován’s recently-discovered memoir, The Burning of the World, which follows the author to the front lines, in August 2014. In March 2014, our all-ebook imprint NYRB Lit published Traitor, Stephen Daisley’s novel about the Battle of Gallipoli.