A potent collection of more than 60 narrative, meditative, and
verse fragments depicting Sarajevo under Serbian siege during the
recent war in what was once Yugoslavia. First published in 1992,
Mehmedinovic's ironical homage to his homeland (he now lives in the
US) stirs together in an exhilarating blend observations of chaotic
street-scenes ("Looted Stores," "Wounded Parks"), blunt criticisms
of both Serbian oppressors and "the intellectuals who kept quiet,"
an impressionistic autobiography, and several superb poems
(especially "Tunnel" and "Dates"). A mixed success, but on balance
a convincing vision of an embattled, defiant society and
sensibility. (Kirkus Reviews)
From 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 the Serbian
nationalists' siege and was active throughout the war in the city's
resistance movement, as one of the editor's of the magazine Phantom
of Liberty. Sarajevo Blues was originally published at the end of
1992 and was the first book in the Biblioteka "egzil-abc" series,
published in Ljubljana, which provided a forum for Bosnian writers
and translators under siege or living in exile. Semezdin
Mehmedinovic says that "writing is, finally, quite a personal thing
that doesn't make much sense unless you are practicing for the last
word." For those Bosnians emerging from the siege or still in
exile, these "last words" remain intimate possessions, one of the
last bastions left against the commodification of tragedy.
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