Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood
Author | : Robert Elsie |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2006-07-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780810123373 |
ISBN-13 | : 0810123371 |
Rating | : 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
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.