The Prince Of Fire

by Radmila J. Gorup and Nadezda Obradovic (Editors)

• ISBN13: 9780822940586
• ISBN10: 0822940582
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-08-09
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Summary

Winner of the 1998 Misha Djordjevic Award for the best book on Serbian culture in English. Editors Gorup and Obradovic have collected stories from thirty-five outstanding writers in this first English anthology of Serbian fiction in thirty years. The anthology, representing a great variety of literary styles and themes, includes works by established writers with international reputations, as well as promising new writers spanning the generation born between 1930 and 1960. These stories may lead to a greater understanding of the current events in the former Yugoslavia.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(4)
Introduction	xiii
Aleksandar Tisma
The Whole Self	1	(8)
Milorad Pavic
The Wedgewood Tea Set	9	(8)
Borislav Pekic
Megalos Mastoras and His Work, 1347 A.D.	17	(38)
Miodrag Bulatovic
The Lovers	55	(16)
Dragoslav Mihailovic
Catch a Falling Star	71	(12)
Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic
Sima Street	83	(8)
Zivojin Pavlovic
The Question	91	(12)
Mladen Markov
The Banat Train	103	(8)
Grozdana Olujic
The African Violet	111	(8)
Danilo Kis
The Lute and Scars	119	(12)
Momo Kapor
The Gift	131	(6)
Branimir Scepanovic
The Scream	137	(6)
Mirko Kovac
The Other Side of Our Eyes	143	(8)
Slavko Lebedinski
Sweet Turtledove	151	(12)
Filip David
The Prince of Fire	163	(14)
Vida Ognjenovic
The Duel	177	(16)
Vidosav Stevanovic
D. S.	193	(8)
Ratko Adamovic
Souls of Stone	201	(14)
Moma Dimic
Night Under the Kosmaj	215	(6)
Milisav Savic
The Locksmith Was Better	221	(8)
Miroslav Josic Visnjic
The Forest of Perpetual Darkness	229	(10)
Milica Micic Dimovska
Smiles	239	(8)
Radoslav Bratic
A Picture Without Father	247	(12)
David Albahari
The Great Rebellion at the Stuln Nazi Camp	259	(8)
Sasa Hadzi-Tancic
Skull Tower	267	(6)
Tiodor Rosic
The Yellow Dog	273	(4)
Radosav Stojanovic
The Clock in the Roofbeam of Hvosno	277	(8)
Jovan Radulovic
Linea Grimani	285	(14)
Dragan Velikic
A Woman from a Catalogue	299	(16)
Radoslav Petkovic
The Plague Report	315	(10)
Svetislav Basara
A Letter from Hell	325	(8)
Mihajlo Pantic
The Morning After (Remake)	333	(10)
Mileta Prodanovic
Degli' Impiccati	343	(12)
Nemanja Mitrovic
In the Mountains	355	(12)
Vladimir Pistalo
Man Without a Face	367