Research Catalog

Title

Sarajevo blues / Semezdin Mehmedinović ; translated from the Bosnian and with an introduction by Ammiel Alcalay.

Author

Mehmedinović, Semezdin, 1960-

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : City Lights Books, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Alcalay, Ammiel.

Description

xvii, 122 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• 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. - Publisher.
• "Spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the recent war in Bosnia-Hercegovina."--Cover.

Uniform Title

Sarajevo blues. English

Alternative Title

Sarajevo blues.

Subject

• 18.58 Serbo-Croatian language and/or literature
• History
• Poetry
• Short stories
• Bosnia and Herzegovina > History > Short stories
• Bosnia and Herzegovina > History > Poetry
• Bosnia and Herzegovina > History
• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• short stories.
• poetry.
• History.
• Poetry.
• Short stories.
• Translations (form)
• Poems (texts)
• Nouvelles.
• Poésie.

Contents

Loss -- Singular Dream -- Corpse -- August, 1989 -- The Phone Rings -- In the Studio -- Alifakovac -- Stranger -- Essay -- Deserter -- Spirituality -- Stocking Hat -- Back then -- At the Edge of Town -- The Chetnik Position -- Expulsion -- Cisterns / Rainwater -- A Relatively Calm Day -- No Man's Land -- Crows -- Grbavica -- A Martyr's Resting Place -- Lilies -- Curfew -- Getting Thinner -- Looted Stores -- Imam Bey's Mosque -- Innocent Civilians -- Fires -- Milomir Kovacevic -- Lion's -- Glass -- Zambak / Muslims -- Kids -- Hero -- Grenade -- Traffic -- Photographers -- Wounded Parks -- War Profiteers -- White Death -- Politics -- Vestibule -- What will you Remember? -- Ruins -- War -- Animals -- Cat -- Shelter -- Washing the Dead -- Exodus -- Bernard-Henri Levy -- Lapisnica / Eduard Limonov -- Sign -- Massacre -- Freedom -- Surplus History -- New Experience -- Tunnel -- Zenica Blues -- Dates -- An Interview with Semezdin Mehmedinovic / Ammiel Alcalay.

ISBN

• 087286345X
• 9780872863453

LCCN

98033738

OCLC

• ocm39505582
• 39505582
• SCSB-508077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library