Prince Of Fire

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Del i serien Russian and East European Studies

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Beskrivning

Winner of the 1998 Misha Djordjevic Award for the best book on Serbian culture in English.Editors Gorup and Obradovic have collected stories from thirty-five outstanding writers in this first English anthology of Serbian fiction in thirty years. The anthology, representing a great variety of literary styles and themes, includes works by established writers with international reputations, as well as promising new writers spanning the generation born between 1930 and 1960. These stories may lead to a greater understanding of the current events in the former Yugoslavia.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-06-11
Mått:152 x 229 x 24 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Russian and East European Studies
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822956617

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Radmila J. Gorup graduated from the University of Belgrade in English literature, and has an M.A. in French literature and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in linguistics from Columbia University. She received a Fulbright award to travel and lecture in Yugoslavia in 1986 and an ACLS grant to travel to Slovenia in 1991. Gorup is the author of The Semantic Organization of the Serbo-Croatian Verb, published in Germany in 1987, and has written numerous research articles and reviews on linguistics and on Serbian literature. She is guest editor for an issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction dedicated to Milorad Pavic to be published in 1998, and is the president of the North American Society for Serbian Studies. She currently teaches in the Slavic Department of Columbia University.

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The stories offer a wide variety of themes and styles and create a rich and satisfying whole, proving the good taste and knowledge of the editors, the aesthetic value of contemporary Serbian prose, and the need for a collection of this kind. . . . [It is] an outstanding contribution to the body of South Slavic/Eastern European literature available in English.