Description of a Struggle

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ANTHOLOGY "When a lonely ruler was walking in the park, threading fallen leaves on his cane, he noticed that among the fallen leaves he had begun to pick up fallen people. 'What a problem,' the lonely leader said to himself. 'What shall I make with the fallen leaves?' He knew what to make with the fallen people-a party!" -Ivan Kulekov, Bulgaria Like Kafka and Gogol, the patron saints of modern Eastern European literature, the forty-three writers in Description of a Struggle are geographers of shadowlands-sixteen nations of the former Soviet bloc. And this startiing volume, edited by Michael March and introduced by the distinguished Czech novelist Ivan Klíma, maps territory that was once forbidden or forgottén, emerging with unfettered visions of daily life that are by tums beautiful, scathing, haunting, and gleefully surreal. Here are cruelly accurate narratives of ethnic warfare in Croatia and a Polish writer's sober meditation on the legacy of the concentration camps; luminous... Tovább

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ANTHOLOGY "When a lonely ruler was walking in the park, threading fallen leaves on his cane, he noticed that among the fallen leaves he had begun to pick up fallen people. 'What a problem,' the lonely leader said to himself. 'What shall I make with the fallen leaves?' He knew what to make with the fallen people-a party!" -Ivan Kulekov, Bulgaria Like Kafka and Gogol, the patron saints of modern Eastern European literature, the forty-three writers in Description of a Struggle are geographers of shadowlands-sixteen nations of the former Soviet bloc. And this startiing volume, edited by Michael March and introduced by the distinguished Czech novelist Ivan Klíma, maps territory that was once forbidden or forgottén, emerging with unfettered visions of daily life that are by tums beautiful, scathing, haunting, and gleefully surreal. Here are cruelly accurate narratives of ethnic warfare in Croatia and a Polish writer's sober meditation on the legacy of the concentration camps; luminous eroticism in the tradition of Milán Kundéra and a high-spirited comedy about the politics of begging, in which we learn why half the "Románián" exiles in the Paris metró are actually Bulgárián. Countries represented: Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Vissza