Serbo-Croatian literature

Book Reviews

• Ivo Andric: Bosnian Chronicle
  - a novel about Napoleon's consulate in Travnik, Bosnia
• Ivo Andric: The Bridge on the Drina**
  - a novel of three centuries in eastern Bosnia
• Svetislav Basara: Chinese Letter
  - an existentialist comedy
• Radmilla J. Gorup, Nadezda Obradovic: The Prince of Fire*
  An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories
• Danilo Kis: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich*
  - dark stories of revolutionaries betrayed
• Danilo Kis: Garden, Ashes*
  - a lyrical childhood in wartime Hungary
• Miroslav Krleza: The Return of Philip Latinowicz
  - an artist in a Danubian backwater
• Borislav Pekic: The Apology and the Last Days
  - a parable of collaboration and retribution
• Borislav Pekic: The Houses of Belgrade*
  - a man looks back on a life obsessed by his houses
• Borislav Pekic: How to Quiet a Vampire**
  - a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
• Borislav Pekic: The Time of Miracles*
  - prophecy, blindness, uncleanliness, sin, faith, madness
• Vedrana Rudan: Night*
  - a Croatian woman sounds off
• Mesa Selimovic: Death and the Dervish**
  - a spiritual crisis amidst Ottoman Bosnian politics
• Mesa Selimovic: The Fortress*
  - surviving the politics of Ottoman Bosnia
• Milos Tsernianski: Migrations
  - a novel of Serbs in 18th century Austria
• Dubravka Ugresic: The Culture of Lies*
  - literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
• Dubravka Ugresic: Thank You For Not Reading
  Essays on Literary Trivia

See also: Eastern Europe | world literature

"The language I write was called until recently Serbo-Croat (or Serbian and Croatian), and it was the language spoken by Croats, Serbs, Bosnians and Montenegrins. Today people are trying to force me to recognise Croatian as my mother-tongue, and Serbian and Bosnian as — foreign languages!"

Dubravka Ugresic, The Culture of Lies