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Tag Archives: Rebecca West
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
Journey (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“These were exactly like all Aryan Germans I had ever known; and there were sixty millions of them in the middle of Europe.” (Journey) WITH HER HUSBAND Rebecca West travels by train from Salzburg, Austria, to Zagreb, the capital of … 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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Clever Girl! (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“He does not so much split his infinitives as disembowel them.” (Rebecca West on Dr. Lionel Tayler, The Clarion, 1913) CONSIDER THIS INTERACTION recorded by Ian Parker about the late Christopher Hitchens in The New Yorker: And then the young … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Alexander Chancellor, Alexander Cockbridge, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Christiane Amanpour, Christopher Hitchens, Colin Robinson, Eric Alterman, Fred Kaplan, george orwell, Hussein Ibish, Ian PArker, Ilija Izetbegovic, James Fenton, Joanna Cole, Jonathan Karp, June Thomas, Mark Twain, Martin Amis, MEryl Gordon, Michael Kinsley, Peter Hitchens, Rebecca West, Roy Gutman, Samantha Power, Victor Navasky, William Grimes
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Not too late to seek a newer world (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“My dear, I know I have inconvenienced you terribly by making you take your holiday now, and I know you did not really want to come to Yugoslavia at all. But when you get there you will see why it … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Croatia, Dalmatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Rebecca West, Serbia
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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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Some Dreamers of the Impossible Dream
With nods to George Kennan, Joan Didion, and Cervantes, enjoy this excerpt from my book, The United States and the Challenge of Public Diplomacy about an extraordinary visit I made to Macedonia in 2006 published in The Foreign Service Journal. Although I wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, Public Diplomacy, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Albania, Books, Bosnia, Bulgaria, current-events, EU, European Union, Foreign Service Journal, George Kennan, international relations, Joan Didion, Macedonia, NATO, nature of politics, Ohrid, politics, Public Diplomacy, Rebecca West, Serbia
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