My Family's Role in the World Revolution And Other Prose |
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| Author:
| Cosic, Bora |
| Translator:
| Clymer Bigelow, Ann |
| Series title: | Writings from an Unbound Europe Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1368-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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Bora Ćosić's
My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Ćosić's publications to be for over four years. During the German occupation of Belgrade, a family--including an alarmist mother, an eternally drunk father, two young aunts who swoon over American movie stars, and a playboy uncle--attempt to find any kind of work they...
More Description Bora Ćosić's My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Ćosić's publications to be for over four years.
During the German occupation of Belgrade, a family--including an alarmist mother, an eternally drunk father, two young aunts who swoon over American movie stars, and a playboy uncle--attempt to find any kind of work they can do at home. When the postwar Socialist society is being ushered in after the war, the narrator becomes the slogan-spouting ideological leader of the household, while his family tries--and often fails miserably--to take part in the "great change."
This volume also includes several Ćosić short stories, and recent essays on the war in the former Yugoslavia.