Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood

Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 159
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ISBN-10 : 9780810123373
ISBN-13 : 0810123371
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Book Synopsis Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood by : Robert Elsie

Download or read book Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood written by Robert Elsie and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stories representing the last three decades of Albanian writing--especially the burst of creativity in the newfound freedom of the 1990s--readers will encounter work that reflects the literary paradox of Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century: the startling originality of the new uneasily coupled with the strains of history; the sophistication and self-consciousness of late (or post-) modernity married to the simplicity of a literature first finding its voice; a refusal of political influence and pressure expressed through frankly political subject matter.


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