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Death in the Museum of Modern Art - Six Stories (Paperback)
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Death in the Museum of Modern Art - Six Stories (Paperback)
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Loot Price R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
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Very different from the rougher, blunter prose of her male
contemporaries, Alma Lazarevska's stories can perhaps be described
as the tender heart of Bosnian war. Writing from the domestic
perspective, her prose is nevertheless deceptively simple; allowing
the horror of the war to impinge with devastating effect on the
most banal, everyday scene. Apart from the protagonist of the first
story, the characters remain nameless. In five of the six stories
we can assume that we are following the same unnamed female
narrator, who refers to her husband simply as "He" and her son as
simply "The Boy." In a conflict where ethnic identity is at the
heart, it seems a sobering decision to dispense with names. The
family in these stories are at the same time everyone and no-one.
They might become bigger than themselves, standing for every group
that has ever been the victim of violence due to their ethnicity;
or they might represent the de-humanization that has to occur in
order for such persecutions to be carried out, reduced to pronouns
rather than individuals with names. "Him" and "her" seem perilously
close to "it." This collection brings home the acute unfairness of
forcing that contemplation of death upon another person, of
depriving them of that human freedom to dream and delude
themselves. And it is a beautiful acknowledgement of the small
humanities that we cling to when we are at the mercy of so much
inhumanity.
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