Stone And Poppy: Mak Dizdar's Kameni Spavač / Stone Sleeper
Stone And Poppy: Mak Dizdar's Kameni Spavač / Stone Sleeper

Summary/Abstract: "At that posthumous moment in 1973, a major European poet, of Muslim background, had, unquestionably, arrived. Not that Europe would know anything about it for upwards of a quarter of a century. It would take the bloody mayhem of the dissolution of Yugoslavia to place Bosnia and Herzegovina on the map for most Europeans. It would take a genocide directed against the Muslim strand of the Bosnian polyphony, as well as the multiconfessional defence of that polyphony, to cast light on a culture obscured to itself and to the world by the mantle of Yugoslav Communism. [...]

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