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The Blue Butterfly, v. 3 - Selected Writings (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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The Blue Butterfly, v. 3 - Selected Writings (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Series: Balkan Trilogy, v. 1
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Poetry. Volume 3 of Berengarten's Selected Writings. THE BLUE
BUTTERFLY has two points of departure. The first is a Nazi massacre
in former Yugoslavia. On October 21st, 1941, seven thousand men and
boys from Kragujevac, a town in central Serbia, were marched out to
the nearby hills and gunned down. The poet Richard Berengarten
visited the site of this atrocity, on May 25th, 1985. As he was
queuing to enter the memorial museum, a blue butterfly descended
onto the forefinger of his writing hand.
This extraordinary and powerful book takes off from these two
episodes. The title poem is already famous in former Yugoslavia in
the translation by Danilo Kis and Ivan V. Lalic. In Serbia,
Berengarten has been honored with the international Morava Prize
for Poetry. In the UK, an early unpublished draft of this sequence
was awarded the Wingate-Jewish Quarterly Prize in 1992.
THE BLUE BUTTERFLY unflinchingly explores both revenge and
forgiveness, expanding from the Balkan historical context to the
present time. The complete book has been a long time in the making.
Because it examines profound and important issues, because it does
not flinch from asking large questions, because it shapes a
crafted, vital, living poetry out of suffering and tragedy, and
because it insists on hope and pleads for joy, this is a book which
has moral implications on many levels. Both passionate and
thoughtful, demanding and rewarding, it is European in context and
universal in scope and relevance.
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