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Author: Bora Ćosić
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comic novella on 1960s Yugoslavia in which a family attempts to create a version of the socialist society in its kitchen. The novella is accompanied by a collection of essays, one of which deals with World War I as seen by Parisians.
Author: Bora Ćosić
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comic novella on 1960s Yugoslavia in which a family attempts to create a version of the socialist society in its kitchen. The novella is accompanied by a collection of essays, one of which deals with World War I as seen by Parisians.
Author: Fulvio Tomizza
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780810117587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrancesco Koslovic—even his name straddles two cultures. And during the spring of 1955, in the village of Materada on the Istrian Peninsula, his two worlds are coming apart. Materada, the first volume of Fulvio Tomizza's celebrated Istrian Trilogy, depicts the Istrian exodus of the hundreds of thousands who had once thrived in a rich ethnic mixture of Italians and Slavs. Complicating Koslovic's own departure is his attempt to keep the land that he and his brother have worked all their lives. A picture of a disappearing way of life, a tale of feud and displacement, and imbued with the tastes, tales, and songs of his native Istria, Koslovic's story is a testament to the intertwined ethnic roots of Balkan history.
Author: Drago Jančar
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780810115545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel on New Orleans through the eyes of Gregor Gradnik, a visiting Slovenian professor of creative writing at a university. He leads a split life, respectable academic during the day, bar crawler at night.
Author: Richard Swartz
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013-08-31
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0810126303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Balkans have been so troubled by violence and misunderstanding that we have the verb “balkanize,” meaning to break up into smaller, warring components. While some of the region’s artists and thinkers have invariably fallen into nationalistic tendencies, the twenty-two prominent authors represented here, from the erstwhile Yugoslavia and its neighbors Albania and Bulgaria, have chosen to attempt to bridge these divides. The essays, biographical sketches, and stories in The Stranger Next Door form a project of understanding that picks up where politics fail. The English-language translation joins editions of the book that appeared concurrently in all of the participating countries.
Author: Irena Vrkljan
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1999-02-17
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0810116049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Prize These are the first two volumes of the Croatian poet and novelist Irena Vrkljan's lyrical autobiography. Although each novel illuminates the other, they also stand alone as original and independent works of art. In The Silk, the Shears, Vrkljan traces the symbolic and moral significance of her life, and her vision of the fate of women in her mother's time and in her own. Marina continues the intense analysis of the poetic self, using the life of Marina Tsvetaeva to meditate on the processes behind biography.
Author: Meša Selimović
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780810117136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.
Author: David Albahari
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2001-06-20
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780810118829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Albahari is one of the most prominent writers to emerge from the former Yugoslavia in the last twenty years. His serious, understated explorations of the self have influenced many writers of his native land's younger generation. The narrator of Bait has just exiled himself to Canada after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the death of his mother. As he listens to a series of audio tapes recorded by the mother years before, the narrator ponders her life and their relationship while simultaneously trying to come to terms with a new life of his own-one of exile and the confusion of a new language and culture. Bait is an exquisitely crafted novel that exhibits the wit and raw honesty Albahari's readers have long admired.
Author: Harold B. Segel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780231114042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Iron Curtain concealed from western eyes a vital group of national and regional writers. Marked by not only geographical proximity but also by the shared experience of communism and its collapse, the countries of Eastern Europe--Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, and the former states of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany--share literatures that reveal many common themes when examined together. Compiled by a leading scholar, the guide includes an overview of literary trends in historical context; a listing of some 700 authors by country; and an A-to-Z section of articles on the most influential writers.
Author: Zoran Zivkovic
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2000-08-22
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780810117815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZoran Zivkovic weaves four mysterious encounters around philosophical questions at the core of human existence. Provocative and original, Time Gifts is a meditation on the nature of time and, especially, on the nature of those at its mercy.
