| My Family's Role in the World Revolution: And Other Prose Translated Edition Contributor(s): Cosic, Bora (Author), Clymer Bigelow, Ann (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810113686 ISBN-13: 9780810113688 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $20.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97-15118 |
| Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 4.82" W x 8.06" (0.63 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bora Cosic's My Family's Role in the World Revolution enjoyed a successful run as a play, but the film version was closed immediately and ultimately caused Cosic's publications to be for over four years. During the German occupation of Belgrade, a family--including an alarmist mother, an eternally drunk father, two young aunts who swoon over American movie stars, and a playboy uncle--attempt to find any kind of work they can do at home. When the postwar Socialist society is being ushered in after the war, the narrator becomes the slogan-spouting ideological leader of the household, while his family tries--and often fails miserably--to take part in the great change. This volume also includes several Cosic short stories, and recent essays on the war in the former Yugoslavia. |