Tag Archives: Serbia

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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Charles Simic Translates Radmila Lazic

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Scott Abbott

The current New York Review of Books includes Radmila Lazic’s “Psalm of Despair.” She was born the same year I was. I would like to write a poem about despair myself. On a long, dark, cold night it caught my … Continue reading →

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Who Are You?

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Scott Abbott

Who are you? I asked him, sitting on the bank of the Rhine, again upriver from the city center. Cologne is a good place to ask me that question, he answered. It is a city that has repeatedly stretched my … Continue reading →

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Conspiracy against Conspiracies

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Scott Abbott

3 June 1998    Belgrade The 13th day of student protests. Bright sunshine. Rock music blares from the square in front of the Plato bookstore. Students sit around tables, stand around talking. A couple of students unroll a banner. On … Continue reading →

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Eugene Richards: Serbs and Magazines

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Scott Abbott

I just got the Phaidon 55 book of photos by Eugene Richards, with a searing introductory text by Chuck Bowden. The two men have worked together and are working together in Richards’ Brooklyn house. Richards is choosing 55 photos for … Continue reading →

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