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Title: THE SECOND BOOK
By: Muharem Bazdulj, Andrew Baruch Wachtel (Trans), Oleg Andric (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0810119366
ISBN 13: 9780810119369
Publisher: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 August, 2004
Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe S.
Pages: 184
Description: An award-winning collection of stories from a promising young Bosnian writer
Synopsis: An award-winning collection of stories from a promising young Bosnian writer; The protagonists of The Second Book, are connected vertically and horizontally by their struggles. Nietzsche, on the edge of madness, spends a number of mornings contemplating his sweeping ideas and the tiny details of life through hazes left by "the gluey fingers of sleep." In "The Hot Sun's Golden Circle," the pharaoh Amenhotep IV, discoverer of monotheism, embarks on a search for the only true god of Egypt. Bazdulj's charming and funny "The Story of Two Brothers" examines the lives of William and Henry James from the shadows of the Old Testament and the age-old archetype of conflict between an eldest brother and the "maladjusted impracticality" of the younger. Muharem Bazdulj has broken from the pack of new Eastern European writers influenced by innovators such as Danilo Kis, Milan Kundera, and Jorge Luis Borges. Employing a light touch, a daring anti-nationalist tone, and the kind of ambition that inspires nothing less than a rewriting of Bosnian and Yugoslavian history, Bazdulj weaves the imagined realities of history into fiction and fiction into history.To quote one critic, for Bazdulj history "is the sum of interpretations while imagination is the sum of facts."
Publication: US
Imprint: Northwestern University Press
Returns: Returnable
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RUSSIAN LITERATURE
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