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From the Editor's Foreword: "Without any doubt, the 1990s will long
be remembered as the decade of Yugoslavia's prolonged
disintegration. A virtual blueprint of the conflict is accessible
to anyone in a position to track the independent print media that
were then emerging in Yugoslavia's various republics."Publishing in
Yugoslavia's Successor States presents the results of extensive
tracking and research in that area. You'll learn how weekly
independent news magazines such as Mladina in Slovenia, Danas in
Croatia, and, later, Vreme in Serbia courageously documented the
centrifugal political forces at work in Yugoslavia at the time.
Independent daily newspapers, often located in provincial cities
away form the centers of political control, pursued similar
policies, adhering to high standards of objective political
coverage. The periodical press also weighed in over time with more
reflective assessments of the area's evolving political crisis and
recommendations for managing it. Finally, as Yugoslavia's old
communist paradigm of information management gradually lost
control, the market gave rise to numerous tabloid weeklies and
dailies that banked on nationalism and fear, serving as handmaidens
to media-savvy demagogues and helping to rekindle past rivalries.
Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States will take you on a
turbulent tour of this vital industry struggling to survive and
thrive in a war-torn land.
Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a
prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Bergen-Belsen, Harzungen,
Dachau and Natzweiler-Struthof. Twenty years later, as he visited
the preserved remains of a camp, his experiences came back to him:
the emaciated prisoners; the ragged, zebra-striped uniforms; the
infirmary reeking of dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor's
stirring account of providing medical aid to prisoners in the face
of the utter brutality of the camps - and coming to terms with the
guilt of surviving when millions did not. It is a classic account
of the Holocaust and a powerful act of remembrance.
From the Editor's Foreword: "Without any doubt, the 1990s will long
be remembered as the decade of Yugoslavia's prolonged
disintegration. A virtual blueprint of the conflict is accessible
to anyone in a position to track the independent print media that
were then emerging in Yugoslavia's various republics."Publishing in
Yugoslavia's Successor States presents the results of extensive
tracking and research in that area. You'll learn how weekly
independent news magazines such as Mladina in Slovenia, Danas in
Croatia, and, later, Vreme in Serbia courageously documented the
centrifugal political forces at work in Yugoslavia at the time.
Independent daily newspapers, often located in provincial cities
away form the centers of political control, pursued similar
policies, adhering to high standards of objective political
coverage. The periodical press also weighed in over time with more
reflective assessments of the area's evolving political crisis and
recommendations for managing it. Finally, as Yugoslavia's old
communist paradigm of information management gradually lost
control, the market gave rise to numerous tabloid weeklies and
dailies that banked on nationalism and fear, serving as handmaidens
to media-savvy demagogues and helping to rekindle past rivalries.
Publishing in Yugoslavia's Successor States will take you on a
turbulent tour of this vital industry struggling to survive and
thrive in a war-torn land.
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The Masochist (Paperback)
Katja Perat; Translated by Michael Biggins
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R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Designed as a historical novel, The Masochist forges an intimate
portrait of a young, tenacious woman who, in uncertain times at the
end of the 19th century, chose an uncertain path - the only path
that could lead her to freedom. On Christmas Eve 1874, Leopold von
Sacher-Masoch, whom history would remember as the most famous
masochist, left his home in Bruck an der Mur in Austria for the
unknown. The novel surmises he didn't come back alone, but brought
with him a new family member: a tiny red-haired girl he found in
the forests around Lemberg/ Lviv. The Masochist is the memoir of
Nadezhda Moser, the woman this little girl becomes, a fictional
character who forces her way among the historical figures of the
time.
Young protagonist Bubi is a perpetual outsider - exiled from
Switzerland in 1938, his family returns home to Ljubljana, where
their half-German background makes them stick out in local society.
Reeling from the loss of his home in Switzerland, and surrounded by
a language he can t quite master, Bubi confronts the challenges and
humiliations of growing up in a strange environment. Narrated with
uncanny naivete, the novel flits between memories of tenderness and
shocking violence as Bubi navigates friendship, family, and his
burgeoning sexuality in a land under hostile occupation.
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Necropolis (Paperback)
Boris Pahor; Translated by Michael Biggins
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R452
R319
Discovery Miles 3 190
Save R133 (29%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Boris Pahor spent the last fourteen months of World War II as a
prisoner and medic in the Nazi camps at Belsen, Harzungen, Dachau,
and Natzweiler. His fellow prisoners comprised a veritable
microcosm of Europe Italians, French, Russians, Dutch, Poles,
Germans. Twenty years later, when he visits a camp in the Vosges
Mountains that has been preserved as a historical monument, images
of his experiences come back to him: corpses being carried to the
ovens; emaciated prisoners in wooden clogs and ragged,
zebra-striped uniforms, struggling up the steps of a quarry or
standing at roll call in the cold rain; the infirmary, reeking of
dysentery and death. Necropolis is Pahor s stirring account of his
attempts to provide medical aid to prisoners in the face of the
utter brutality of the camps and of his coming to terms with the
ineradicable guilt he feels, having survived when millions did not.
A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance
lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, "The Master
of Insomnia" is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak's
verse from the last fifteen years, including numerous poems never
before available in English. In these sensitive translations, Novak
stands revealed as both innovator and observer; as critic Aleš
Debeljak has written: "The poet's power in bearing witness to
Sarajevo and Dalmatia, to his childhood room and his retired
father, to the indifferent passage of time and the desperate pain
of loss, confirms the melancholy clairvoyance of Walter Benjamin,
who stated that what is essential hides in the marginal, negligent,
and hardly observed details. Whoever strives to see the 'big
picture' will inevitably overlook the essential... Novak's]
wide-open eyes must watch over both the beauty of this life and the
horror of its destruction."
Poetry. Tomaz Salamun is perhaps the most popular and prolific poet
in Central Europe today. Thanks to the translation of his work he
has also been widely acclaimed abroad. To date he has had four
collections of selected poetry published in English. A BALLAD FOR
METKA KRASOVEC, originally published in the 1980s by Harcourt, at
the mid-point of Salamun's career, is considered by the author to
be one of his finest works. The volume is characterized by often
striking imagery and sexual turmoil. It is the first complete
single volume of his to appear in English translation. The
translator is Michael Biggins, who is a Slavic and East European
Studies librarian at the University of Washington Libraries in
Seattle. SPD also carries Salamun's FOUR QUESTIONS OF MELANCHOLY
(White Pine).
With its echoes of fellow Austrian novelist Robert Musil's
novella Young T?rless, and of G?nter Grass's The Tin Drum, Florjan
Lipuš's "Young Tjaž," first published in 1972, helped moved the
critique of Germanic Europe's fundamental social conformity into
the postwar age.
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