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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1999-09-01
- Pages
- 406
- ISBN
- 9780810117136
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810117134
ISBN-13
9780810117136
eBay Product ID (ePID)
524402
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fortress : a Novel
Number of Pages
406 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
War & Military, General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Writings from an Unbound Europe Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-027539
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
" The Fortress is a chilling, Kafkaesque tale of baffling, inescapable persecution that evokes Camus's The Stranger and Sartre's No Exit. " -- Washington Post Book World, "In disturbing echoes of the present day, Ahmet Shabo rehearses issues we live with now, in our apparently distant, transformed world, their somber litany a fitting testament to his creator's prescience." -- Review of Contemporary Fiction, "One of the most significant novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Profound in its evocation of Bosnian history...Selimovic's subtle and complex characterization, his vivid evocation of the political and social framework of a historical moment and its associations with modern Yugoslavian history, and the insight of his moral and philosophical explorations all contribute to the book's dark power."-- T ranslation Review "... a striking and memorable novel." --Danny Yee, "One of the most significant novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Profound in its evocation of Bosnian history...Selimovic's subtle and complex characterization, his vivid evocation of the political and social framework of a historical moment and its associations with modern Yugoslavian history, and the insight of his moral and philosophical explorations all contribute to the book's dark power." -- T ranslation Review "... a striking and memorable novel." --Danny Yee, "One of the most significant novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Profound in its evocation of Bosnian history...Selimovic's subtle and complex characterization, his vivid evocation of the political and social framework of a historical moment and its associations with modern Yugoslavian history, and the insight of his moral and philosophical explorations all contribute to the book's dark power."-- Translation Review
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
891.8/2354
Table Of Content
Translators' Foreword 1. The Dniestr Marshes 2. Sadness and Laughter 3. Happiness, Nonetheless 4. Enemy Country 5. Empty Space 6. A Strange Summer 7. A Dead Son 8. The Fear of Isolation 9. A Tale of Children's Flutes 10. A Pure-Hearted Young Man 11. I'll Not Think of Ramiz 12. The Sorrow and the Fury 13. The Rescue 14. The Power of Love 15. Father and Son 16. The Epitaph 17. The Eternal Tracker 18. Death in Venice 19. The Fortress Glossary and References
Synopsis
The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities., The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Published as Tvrdava in Serbian, it is the tenth and among the best-known novels by Mesa Selimovic (1910-1982). In the novel, Ahmet Shabo returns home to seventeenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities. Set in Bosnia in the late 1700s, the novel sometimes functions as an artful metaphor for the communist Yugoslavia of Selimovic's day. At other times, the author explores the nuances of Ottoman rule in the Balkans. Muslim Ahmet's sustaining marriage to a young Christian woman provides a multicultural tension that strongly resonates with contemporary readers and sensibilities., Ahmet Sabo, the narrator of the novel, returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from war in Russia. Numbed by the deaths in battle or by suicide of nearly his entire military unit, he is devastated to learn that most of his family has died of disease during his absence. Through the help of a friend and the love of a young Christian woman, Ahmet overcomes the psychological anguish of war only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value -- and often will not tolerate -- the subversive implications of these qualities. Some remarks Ahmet makes at a party -- about human decency and fairness and the tendency of the powerful to trample over them -- lead him into the dark labyrinth of the novel's plot, in which his encounters with love and violence, intrigue, tyranny, and intellectual adventure continuously reshape his destiny and his sense of the meaning of his life.
LC Classification Number
PG1419.29.E43T913
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