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Preparing for a Review of David Albahari’s Two New Books in English

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Scott Abbott

I’m just about done with a review I’ve been working on for over a year. Here is how it will begin: Double Consciousness David Albahari Globetrotter Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać Yale, 2014 Learning Cyrillic Translated from the Serbian by Ellen … Continue reading →

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David Albahari’s GLOBETROTTER: First Thoughts

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Scott Abbott

Globetrotter by David Albahari translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac Yale University Press, August 2014 . . . By the way, lest I forget, that evening we did not encounter a single elk, and that fact persuaded me to promise myself that … Continue reading →

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Translated from . . . : Works by Miljenko Jergovic

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Scott Abbott

Five years passed in the blink of an eye. Natasa was in Belgrade, and I was in Sarajevo. The war was raging. The war of my life, the only one I remember and the only one in which it seems … Continue reading →

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