Transatlantic Mail Jergovic, Miljenko; Mehmedinovic, Semezdin
The Massachusetts review,
10/2010, Volume:
51, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Letters by Miljenko Jergovic and Semezdin Mehmedinovic expressing their experiences during the postwar years are presented. Jergovic tells his experiences in Zagreb, a city that had not seen war ...since the time the Turks had tried to conquer it but failed. He felt the war more intensely in Zagreb in 1994 and 1995 than in Sarajevo in 1992 and 1993. On the other hand, Mehmedinovic shares how the postwar change the world and everything that surrounds him. This huge change leads him to read more books about the happenings during the 1980s.
iljenko Jergović is one of the contemporary writers from the former Yugoslavia who has devoted a large part of his recent work to the problem of memory and forgetting in a radically changed and ...changing world. This article examines how the processes of trauma, fantasy, and remembering have been inscribed in two of his works, Mama Leone and Historijska čitanka, and how the combination of these texts' narrative playfulness and their desire for memory creates a memory text that produces a highly ambiguous access to the past.
Mama Leone Vidan, Aida
World Literature Today,
01/2001, Volume:
75, Issue:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Peer reviewed
In the first part of the collection, set alternately in Sarajevo and the town of Drvenik on the Croatian coast, the reader is introduced to the ethnically intricate circle around the young narrator, ...who shares with the author not only the same first name but also apparently many of the same personal experiences. The gallery of characters constituting his immediate and distant social contacts represent the melting pot that was Bosnia before the last war.
