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An edition of Sarajevo blues (1992)

Sarajevo blues

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At the end of 1992, poet, writer, and co-director of the award-winning film "Mizaldo", Semezdin Mehmedinovic published a book of spare and haunting stories and poems that described the collapse of his world following the eruption of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in April of the same year.

Publish Date
Publisher
City Lights Books
Language
English
Pages
122

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Cover of: Sarajevo blues
Sarajevo blues
1998, City Lights Books
Paperback in English
Cover of: Sarajevo blues
Sarajevo blues
1995, Durieux
in Croatian
Cover of: Sarajevo blues
Sarajevo blues: pojmovnik opsjednutog
1992, Svjetlost
in Croatian

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Published in
San Francisco, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/236
Library of Congress
PG1419.23.E37 S2713 1998, PG1619.23.E464S2713, PG 1419.23 .E37 S2713 1998

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xvii, 122 p. ;
Number of pages
122
Dimensions
21 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL372117M
Internet Archive
sarajevoblues00mehm
ISBN 10
087286345X
LCCN
98033738
OCLC/WorldCat
39505582
Library Thing
13680
Goodreads
270829

Work Description

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.

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