Foldfear. Life is a Story - Story.one
Author: Ioana Krystyna
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-08-27
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 3710887860
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Lodgers
Author: Nenad Velickovic
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005-09-06
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0810122421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished as the siege of Sarajevo ended, Lodgers is a hilarious, unsentimental report from the front lines of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Detergent mixed with flour, museum relics sold to U.N. peacekeepers, the magic power of laminated accreditation-all of the folly and the horror of that time are revealed in the sarcastic report of the novel's teenage would-be authoress.
The Old Wives Tale, 1595
Author: George Peele
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature
Author: Debbie Pinfold
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2001-08-23
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0191554197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the ways in which German authors have used the child's perspective to present the Third Reich. It considers how children at this time were brought up and educated to accept unquestioningly National Socialist ideology, and thus questions the possibility of a traditional naive perspective on these events. Authors as diverse as Günter Grass, Siegfried Lenz, and Christa Wolf, together with many less well-known writers, have all used this perspective, and this raises the question as to why it is such a popular means of confronting the enormity of the Third Reich. This study asks whether this perspective is an evasive strategy, a means of gaining new insights into the period, or a means of discovering a new language which had not been tainted by Nazism. This raises and addresses issues central to a post-war aesthetic in German writing.
Neo-Victorian Cannibalism
Author: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-04
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 3030025594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Pivot examines a body of contemporary neo-Victorian novels whose uneasy relationship with the past can be theorised in terms of aggressive eating, including cannibalism. Not only is the imagery of eating repeatedly used by critics to comprehend neo-Victorian literature, the theme of cannibalism itself also appears overtly or implicitly in a number of the novels and their Victorian prototypes, thereby mirroring the cannibalistic relationship between the contemporary and the Victorian. Tammy Lai-Ming Ho argues that aggressive eating or cannibalism can be seen as a pathological and defining characteristic of neo-Victorian fiction, demonstrating how cannibalism provides a framework for understanding the genre’s origin, its conflicted, ambivalent and violent relationship with its Victorian predecessors and the grotesque and gothic effects that it generates in its fiction.
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
Author: Plautus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0141911220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which raises serious questions about the role of slavery. Also included are The Brothers Menaechmus, which formed the prototype for Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, and The Pot of Gold, whose old miser Euclio is a glorious study in avarice. Throughout, Plautus breathes new, brilliant life into classic comic types - including deceitful twins, scheming slaves, bitter old men and swaggering soldiers - creating an entertaining critique of Roman life and values.
The Question of Bruno
Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2002-08-13
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1400032849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking. A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet. An exiled writer, working in a sandwich shop in Chicago, adjusts to the absurdities of his life. Love letters from war torn Sarajevo navigate the art of getting from point A to point B without being shot. With a surefooted sense of detail and life-saving humor, Aleksandar Hemon examines the overwhelming events of history and the effect they have on individual lives. These heartrending stories bear the unmistakable mark of an important new international writer.
The Island on Bird Street
Author: Uri Orlev
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780395616239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel about the experiences of a Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust in Poland.
Sarajevo Blues
Author: Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 1998-12-01
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780872863453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of Bosnia's most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic remained a citizen of Sarajevo throughout...
Ukulele Jam
Author: Alen Meskovic
Publisher: Seren
Published: 2018-03-19
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1781723435
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs funny as a Nick Hornby, but with an existential seriousness that cannot be mistaken. – Ekstra Bladet. A glimpse of what it means to literally and physically be an outlaw because of your name... There is an energy of language, an underlying pain, an anger... – Politiken. A fantastic, unfanatical first-hand portrayal of life in a country at war with itself... You will both smile and feel sad over his descriptions and fast-paced dialogue with its moments of furious tension." – Nordjyske Bosnian teenager Miki and his family are escaping the Balkan war. They live in a Croatian refugee camp, a former holiday resort, but it's difficult to adjust. With the war rumbling in the background and his brother in a Serbian prison camp, Miki and his new friends pick up girls, listen to music and have campfire parties on the beach. Then war breaks out between Croats and Bosnians and friends threaten to become enemies. Miki dreams of emigrating to Sweden but his parents can't bear to give up on their old life in Bosnia. Based on his own experiences, Alen Mešković has written a novel by turns humorous and tragic, which has been compared to Salinger and Knausgaard. It is lively, poetic, raw, affecting and very funny, all the while depicting a European tragedy whose consequences still resonate today.
