Balkan Blues: Writing Out of Yugoslavia

By: Labon, Joanna

This collection first appeared as a special issue of Storm, the British literary journal of new eastern European writing. Joanna Labon has selected excellent, timely essays, stories, drama, and prose by exiled or silenced members of the Yugoslav intelligentsia.

Contributors: Dubravka Ugresic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Dragan Velikic, Danilo Kis, Drago Jančar, Mirko Kovač, Goran Stefanovski, Dzevad Karahasan, and Slobodan Blagojevic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810113252
• ISBN13: 9780810113251
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

B. Blues is a portal for the American house of information.

The television media is a kind of window on the American house of information. It is an obscure window made of stained glass which one has to crawl up close to and press their face against in order to see anything outside. Still a man's view is obscured. The only thing one really looks at is the t.v. itself, to admire the stained glass window. Newspaper media is a sort of Bay window offering a wide clear view of the landscape and looking out in several directions depending on the newspaper. The radio, the disembodied voice, a skylight. BALKAN BLUES on the other hand is a book functioning as a portal. Rather than looking out of the American house it invites its visitors, the various authors of its stories, to enter and entreats us to understand something about who they are and appeals to the complexity of the places they live. Places outside our own house.