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oapen-20.500.12657-255442022-07-21T07:50:24Z Vampires and a Reasonable Dictionary Abbot, Scott Radaković, Zarko fiction Yugoslavia travel narrative Serbia vampires bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WT Travel & holiday::WTL Travel writing As a follow-up to their first collaboration Repetitions (published in Belgrade in 1994, and in English by punctum in 2013), in 2008 the authors published, also in Belgrade, Vampiri & Razumni recnik, published here by punctum as Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary. Vampires is Radaković’s fictionalized account of a Serb living in Cologne, Germany while his former country disintegrates. He travels in the American West, ostensibly looking for the vampires causing chaos in his own country, and then returns to Europe, having found no vampires. It is a dark text, a story of destruction told in a narrative that refuses all the solaces narrative has traditionally afforded. A Reasonable Dictionary is Abbott’s personally troubled account of his and Radaković’s trip up the Drina River between the civil wars, a journey made with the novelist Peter Handke, a trip during which some of Abbott’s specifically American stories lost their moral structure. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:43:00Z 2020-04-01T10:43:00Z 2014 book 1004551 OCN: 1058951399 9780692022238 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25544 eng application/pdf n/a 1004551.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0076.1.00 10.21983/P3.0076.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9780692022238 ScholarLed 186 Brooklyn, NY open access
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As a follow-up to their first collaboration Repetitions (published in Belgrade in 1994, and in English by punctum in 2013), in 2008 the authors published, also in Belgrade, Vampiri & Razumni recnik, published here by punctum as Vampires & A Reasonable Dictionary. Vampires is Radaković’s fictionalized account of a Serb living in Cologne, Germany while his former country disintegrates. He travels in the American West, ostensibly looking for the vampires causing chaos in his own country, and then returns to Europe, having found no vampires. It is a dark text, a story of destruction told in a narrative that refuses all the solaces narrative has traditionally afforded. A Reasonable Dictionary is Abbott’s personally troubled account of his and Radaković’s trip up the Drina River between the civil wars, a journey made with the novelist Peter Handke, a trip during which some of Abbott’s specifically American stories lost their moral structure.
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