Between exile and asylum
Subtitle: an eastern epistolary
By: by Predrag Matvejević ; translated from the Croatian by Russell Scott Valentino.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Matvejević, Predrag, 1932- -- Correspondence.; Soviet Union -- Description and travel.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "A collection of letters, written by a most extraordinary and yet typical representative of the East European intelligentsia, sent from Moscow, Mostar, and more recently Paris and Rome, where the author has lived since leaving war-torn Bosnia." "Matvejevic first went to the USSR in 1972, as a guest of the Writers' Union, and described to his father the land that Matvejevic senior had not seen since leaving Odessa in 1921 (and that he would never see again in his lifetime). He chronicles the dissolution of the USSR, its final twenty years of existence, from the unique vantage point of a semi-insider - a half-Russian, non-aligned (Yugoslav) dissident intellectual rooted in the public debates and artistic life of both Western, Eastern and Central Europe. This story, moreover, parallels the simultaneous dissolution of Yugoslavia, to which the narrator refers increasingly as the book nears its end."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.