Das Wort im Krieg. Ein bosnisch-kroatisches Lesebuch
The Word in War. A Bosnian-Croatian Reader

Contributor(s): Dunja Melčić (Editor)
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: war in Bosnia-Hercegovina;
Summary/Abstract: »The Word in War« brings together a wide variety of texts, all of which were written as a reaction to the war in former Yugoslavia and convey a very personal view of those events that led to a radical break with their previous lives for their authors. The authors who have written in form of literature or essays collected in this book, such as Antun Šoljan, Mirko Kovač, Ivan Rogić Nehajev, Nedžad Ibrišimović, Semezdin Mehmedinović, Irfan Horozović, Abdulah Sidran, Bora Cosić or Miljenko Jergović, are in the German-speaking world little known part. An exception is Dževad Karahasan, who is considered to be the best-known contemporary Bosnian writer and who also wrote the foreword to the anthology. (PUBLISHED IN 1995 IN FRANKFURT BY DIPA PUBLISHING HOUSE)

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