In Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work “The Battle o
In this first scholarly book in English on Miron Bialoszewski (1922–1983), Joanna Nizynska illuminates the elusive prose of one of the most compelling and challenging postwar Polish writers. Nizynska’
Danilo Kis (1935–89) was a Yugoslav novelist, essayist, poet, and translator whose work generated storms of controversy in his homeland but today holds classic status. Kis was championed by prominent
Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Seferdelicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwargeneration, a generation for whom a devastating history has growndistant, both temporall
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a c
This is the first English-language anthology of the plays of renowned Polish dramatist, composer, musicologist and graphic designer Boguslaw Schaeffer. Includes: The Monologue for One Actor (1976), Qu
It’s the late 1940s in Skopje, Yugoslavia, in the critical year leading to Tito’s break with Stalin. Pushed to leave mountain villages to become the new proletariat in urban factories, a flood of
"Jergovic is an enormously talented storyteller." ?Aleksandar HemonA masterful collection of stories that draws the reader into a boy's episodic, profoundly personal recounting of his war-torn homelan
A collision between contemporary poetics and the Renaissance lyric, between aestheticism and political engagement, The Master of Insomnia is a collection of Slovenian poet Boris A. Novak’s verse from
"Dimkovska pins readers to the wall with rapid-fire linguistic energy."?Publishers Weekly, starred review"[Dimkovsaka has the] stunning capacity to transform the ridiculous into something poignant and
Introducing one of the most stylish and moody historic detective series ever: The Inspector Eberhard Mock QuartetOccupied Breslau, 1933: Two young women are found murdered on a train, scorpions writhi
The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp?The boy in her memories who strokes her with t
Written when he was only twenty-five, before embarking on the masterpieces that would make him an integral figure in twentieth-century letters, Psalm 44 shows Ki? at his most lyrical and unguarded, de
Written between 1980 and 1986, the six stories that constitute The Lute and the Scars (as well as an untitled piece by the author, included here as “A and B”) were transcribed from the manuscripts lef
The Attic is Danilo Ki?’s first novel. Written in 1960, published in 1962, and set in contemporary Belgrade, it explores the relationship of a young man, known only as Orpheus, to the art of writing;
Poetry. Translated from the Croatian by Durda Vukelic-Ro?ic and Karl Kvitko. THE TIGER IS THE WORLD is a cycle of poems and prose poems in five parts inspired by the ferocity, willfulness and beauty o
The Duchess of Alba, known as Goya's muse, recalls the passions of youth on her deathbed in the royal court of eighteenth-century Madrid. A young woman defies the protocols of her arranged marriage an
