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Walking this morning, I watched two bicyclists ride past and couldn’t remember the German word for a road bike. “Strasse…”–street…, I thought, and then the word “Strassenkreuzer” came to mind, street cruiser (cruiser as in a warship, streetcruiser as in … Continue reading

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Writers in Belgrade: Zarko Radakovic and Peter Handke

The City of Belgrade recently conferred honorary citizenship on Peter Handke. Zarko Radakovic travelled from Cologne to Belgrade to translate for Handke. After the ceremonies they spent two days hiking in the nature preserve Fruska Gora. It was a beautiful … Continue reading

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Dragan Aleksić’s ZWISCHEN NERA UND KARASCH (Between the Nera and the Karash)

ZWISCHEN NERA UND KARASCH (Between the Nera and the Karash) By Dragan Aleksić Translated into German from Serbian by Mirjana and Klaus Wittmann Mattes & Seitz: Berlin 2013 Originally published as Između Nere i Karaša Narodna Knjiga-Alfa: Beograd, 2003 The … Continue reading

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Dreaming the Southern Slavs

He lay in bed thinking about the new book by Zarko Radakovic and David Albahari, Knjiga o muzici, the “Book about Music.” He couldn’t read it because it was in Serbian. He thought about Albahari’s novel Ludwig, which he had just read … Continue reading

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