Translators' Foreword
1. The Dniestr Marshes
2. Sadness and Laughter
3. Happiness, Nonetheless
4. Enemy Country
5. Empty Space
6. A Strange Summer
7. A Dead Son
8. The Fear of Isolation
9. A Tale of Children's Flutes
10. A Pure-Hearted Young Man
11. I'll Not Think of Ramiz
12. The Sorrow and the Fury
13. The Rescue
14. The Power of Love
15. Father and Son
16. The Epitaph
17. The Eternal Tracker
18. Death in Venice
19. The Fortress
Glossary and References
Meša Selimovic (1910-82) is one of the most significant writers to
emerge from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born in Sarajevo, of Muslim
descent, he brought to the literature of Yugoslavia an
unprecedented psychological subtlety and an existential concern for
characters at crucial moments of their lives. His novel Death
and the Dervish was published by Northwestern University Press in
1996.
E. D. Goy was a lecturer in Slavonic studies at Cambridge for
thirty-five years until his retirement in 1990.
Jasna Levinger was a lecturer in English language and
sociolinguistics at the Universities of Sarajevo and Novi Sad. She
now lives in Cambridge.
""The Fortress is a chilling, Kafkaesque tale of baffling,
inescapable persecution that evokes Camus's The Stranger and
Sartre's No Exit."" --Washington Post Book World
|""In disturbing echoes of the present day, Ahmet Shabo rehearses
issues we live with now, in our apparently distant, transformed
world, their somber litany a fitting testament to his creator's
prescience."" --Review of Contemporary Fiction
|""One of the most significant novels to come out of the former
Yugoslavia. Profound in its evocation of Bosnian
history...Selimovic's subtle and complex characterization, his
vivid evocation of the political and social framework of a
historical moment and its associations with modern Yugoslavian
history, and the insight of his moral and philosophical
explorations all contribute to the book's dark
power.""--Translation Review
""The Fortress is a chilling, Kafkaesque tale of baffling,
inescapable persecution that evokes Camus's The Stranger and
Sartre's No Exit."" --Washington Post Book World
|""In disturbing echoes of the present day, Ahmet Shabo rehearses
issues we live with now, in our apparently distant, transformed
world, their somber litany a fitting testament to his creator's
prescience."" --Review of Contemporary Fiction
|""One of the most significant novels to come out of the former
Yugoslavia. Profound in its evocation of Bosnian
history...Selimovic's subtle and complex characterization, his
vivid evocation of the political and social framework of a
historical moment and its associations with modern Yugoslavian
history, and the insight of his moral and philosophical
explorations all contribute to the book's dark
power.""--Translation Review
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