Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia

edited by Joanna Labon

Northwestern University Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-8101-1325-1
Library of Congress Classification PG584.E1B35 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.80809497

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

This collection first appeared as a special issue of Storm, the British literary journal of new eastern European writing. Joanna Labon has selected excellent, timely essays, stories, drama, and prose by exiled or silenced members of the Yugoslav intelligentsia.

Contributors: Dubravka Ugrešić, Bogdan Bogdanović, Dragan Velikić, Danilo Kiš, Drago Jančar, Mirko Kovač, Goran Stefanovski, Dževad Karahasan, and Slobodan Blagojević.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

JOANNA LABON was born in 1962 and graduated from Manchester University. She worked as a bookseller and as an editor at Faber and Faber before founding Storm in 1990. She was the publisher Jonathan Cape's foreign literature advisor from 1991 to 1993 and for the past several years has been the Institute of Contemporary Arts' main consultant on eastern Europe. She lives in London.

REVIEWS

"A remarkable editorial achievement." —Mark Thompson, Guardian

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"Politics, war and landscape are indissolubly wedded, the beauty sustains the suffering, the suffering deepens and gives dark new meaning to the beauty." —Hugh Barnes, Independent

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"A collection of contemporary writers celebrating the vibrant culture of what was Yugoslavia even as they verify its end." —American Bookseller

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Dubravka Ugrešić     Balkan Blues

Bogdan Bogdanović     The City and Death

Drago Jančar    Augsburg

Dževad Karahasan    Sarajevo: Portrait of an Inward City

Mirko Kovač    Farewell to Mother

Danilo Kiš    A Man with No Country

Slobodan Blagojević    Here I Am!

Goran Stefanovski     Sarajevo: Tales from a City (A Play)

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