Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood - Modern Albanian Short Stories

Informationen zum Autor ROBERT ELSIE (1950-2017) was the West's leading specialist on Albanian literature. He worked as a freelance interpreter, primarily Albanian and German, and is the author of numerous books and articles on various aspects of Albanian culture and affairs. Klappentext 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.Represents 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. This book provides English-speaking readers with an elucidating overview of the nation's literature.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Elsie, Robert (EDT) Elsie
• Assisted by: Robert Elsie (Editor), Robert Elsie (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2006
• EAN: 9780810123373
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-2337-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe S.; Writings from an Unbound Europe; Writings from an Unbound Europ; Writings from an Unbound Europe
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature