Words are Something Else (Writings from an Unbound Europe) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Words are Something Else (Writings from an Unbound Europe) Book

Set in the author's native Serbia, this collection of short stories reveals a vision transcending the narrow world of Serbian nationalism. David Albahari is concerned with the separation of people, but in a more universal sense than the tribal. He has the modern writer's obsession with our inability to express in words what is really meant; he even plays with self-reference, pointing to the inability of a reader to grasp the hidden context of literature. In the early stories, a claustrophobically close Jewish family struggles comically to communicate. In the later ones, it is a husband and wife who strive for an elusive connection.Read More

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  • 0810113066
  • 9780810113060
  • David Albahari, Ellen Elias-Bursac
  • 30 April 1998
  • Northwestern University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 215
  • Translated
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