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Tag Archives: former Yugoslavia
Remembering Yugoslavia Meets Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
With many thanks to the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast and Peter Korchnak!
Bosnia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“Look,” I said, “the river at Sarajevo runs red. That I think a bit too much. The pathetic fallacy really ought not to play with such painful matters.” “Yes, it is as blatant as a propagandist poster,” said my husband. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Dr. Judith R. Cohen, Flory Jagoda, former Yugoslavia, Gavrilo Princip, Judeo-Spanish, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Ladino, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Nina Šalom Vučković, Rebecca West, Sarajevo, siege, Vukosava Čabrinović, World War I
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Dalmatia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“But these people’s culture instructed them exactly how best they might live where they must live.” BY TRAIN REBECCA West and her husband travel from Zagreb to Sušak in Dalmatia. From there they travel by car and boat to several … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Austria, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Croatia, Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Italy, Korcula, Mongolia, Mongols, Rab, Ragusa, Rebecca West, Salonae, Senj, Split, Susak, Trogir, Turkey, Venetians, Venice, Yugoslavia
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Croatia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“Politics, always politics. In the middle of the night, when there is a rap on our bedroom door, it is politics.” (Croatia/Zagreb VII) ENDING THE JOURNEY of the previous chapter, Rebecca West and her husband arrive in Zagreb proper. Three … Continue reading
Prologue (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“And the death of Elizabeth had shown me the scourge of the world after the war, Luccheni, Fascism, the rule of the dispossessed class that claims its rights and cannot conceive them save in terms of empty violence, of killing, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Anarchism, assassination, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bulgaria, Empress Elizabeth, former Yugoslavia, IMRO, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, King Alexander I, Luigi Lucheni, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Vlado Chernozemski, Yugoslavia
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The Bridge on the Neretva (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“To look at it is good; to stand on it is as good.” (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon) THE COVER OF nearly every edition of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon prominently features the same extraordinary architectural, cultural, and pontine monument … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, California, Cultural Diplomacy, destruction, European Union, former Yugoslavia, Mostar, NATO, Rebecca West, restoration, Stari Most, Yugoslavia
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Working Titles (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“I write books to find out about things.” (Paris Review, 1981) FOR THIS PROJECT I have four individual editions of Black Lamb separated in publication by 80 years. More than 25 years ago I started reading the 1994 Penguin Books … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Balkan Ghosts, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Books, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canongate, Capitol Hill Books, Christopher Hitchens, COVID19, Croatia, former Yugoslavia, KFOR, Kindle, Los Angeles Review of Books, Macedonia, NATO, Penguin, Quarantine, Rebecca West, Richard Holbrooke, Robert Kaplan, Serbia, travel books, travelogue, Viking Press, Yugoslavia
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Blogging ‘Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’
“What is Kaimakshalan? A mountain in Macedonia, but where is Macedonia since the Peace Treaty? This part of it is called South Serbia. And where is that, in Czechoslovakia, or in Bulgaria? And what has happened there? The answer is … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Austro-Hungarian Empire, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Communism, Croatia, Dalmatia, fascism, former Yugoslavia, Henry Andrews, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Sarajevo, Serbia, Slovenia, travel books, travelogue, World War II, Yugoslavia
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Bosnian Culture is World Culture: March 4 is Global Museum Solidarity Day
Today more than 200 museums, galleries and libraries in nearly 40 countries on five continents symbolically closed exhibits in solidarity with seven closed and threatened cultural institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina. More than 20 galleries and universities in North America, 50 in … Continue reading
Day of Solidarity with the Cultural Institutions of Bosnia-Herzegovina: March 4
Imagine if Congress refused to fund the Smithsonian Institutions — the most visited museum complex in the world — not because of “sequestration” or spending cuts but because Democrats and Republicans in Congress could not agree on whether it should … Continue reading
Posted in Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged art gallery, Bosnia-Herzegovina, cultural institutions, former Yugoslavia, library, museum, Sarajevo
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