Twilight of the Idols Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia |
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| Author:
| Debelijak, Ales
Rappaport, Elizabeth |
| Translator:
| Biggins, Michael |
| ISBN: | 978-1-877727-51-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1995 |
| Publisher: | White Pine Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.00 |
Book Description:
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This long, two-part essay raises disturbing questions about our intellectual commitment to the concept of multiculturalism and paints a haunting portrait of a place that no longer exists. The striking photographs show us what remains of a culturally rich and diverse place, where as Debeljak states, the people "until yesterday had lived in a single state, but who today have different countries. The guns of the Balkans have silenced those good vibrations. The stars have set, And of all...
More DescriptionThis long, two-part essay raises disturbing questions about our intellectual commitment to the concept of multiculturalism and paints a haunting portrait of a place that no longer exists. The striking photographs show us what remains of a culturally rich and diverse place, where as Debeljak states, the people "until yesterday had lived in a single state, but who today have different countries. The guns of the Balkans have silenced those good vibrations. The stars have set, And of all seasons, the lands south of my own country know but a single one -- the deep, dark winter of death."