Celia Hawkesworth Livres

The pieces collected in Lend Me Your Character—the novella "Steffie Cvek in the Jaws of Life" and a collection of short stories entitled Life Is a Fairy Tale— solidify Dubravka Ugresic's reputation as one of Eastern Europe's most playful and inventive writers. From the story of Steffie Cvek, a harassed and vulnerable typist whose life is shaped entirely by clichés as she searches relentlessly for an elusive romantic love in a narrative punctuated by threadbare advice from women's magazines and constructed like a sewing pattern, to "The Kharms Case," one of Ugresic's funniest stories ever about the strained relationship between a persistent translator and an unresponsive publisher, the pieces in this collection are always smart and endlessly entertaining.

Roman de peintre ou d'un joueur d'échecs, ce livre relate la vie du général d'origine croate Omer pacha Latas, envoyé en Bosnie en 1850 par le sultan Abdul Medjid pour y imposer l'autorité turque. La Bosnie, si elle dépend alors d'Istambul, est en réalité menée par ses knez, dont le premier, le Voïvode Zimonitch, règne sur la région de Sarajevo. Ces knez, Omer pacha va chercher à les contraindre ; eux s'attacheront à plier, à craindre, à attendre surtout. Autour de ce duel, comme en promenant ses yeux sur un échiquier, les figures se croisent, se rencontrent : la reine, épouse du séraskier, le fou, Costache Nenisanu, qui perd la raison par amour, la tour, ce serviteur du pacha qui le protège et pourvoie à ses vices, les soldats, anciens autrichiens ou croates islamisés. L'art de la miniature à l'échelle d'une fresque, par le plus célèbre des écrivains yougoslaves (Prix Nobel 1961).

This interactive course offers a step-by-step approach to both written and spoken Serbian, equipping students with the skills to communicate confidently and effectively in various everyday situations.

Women are conspicuously absent from traditional cultural histories of south-east Europe. This book addresses that imbalance by describing the contribution of women to literary culture in the Orthodox/ Ottoman areas of Serbia and Bosnia. The first complete literary history in relation to women's writing in south-east Europe. The author provides a broad chronological account of this contribution, dividing the book into two main parts; the earlier period up until the eighteenth century concentrates on the projections of gender through the medium of oral tradition and the lives of a handful of educated women in medieval Serbia and the few works of literature they left. Hawkesworth also looks at the written literature produced by women, first in the mid-nineteenth century and then at the turn of the century. The second part focuses on the trials and tribulations that affected feminism and women's literature throughout the twentieth century. The author finishes by highlighting the new women's movement, 1975-1990, a great period for women in Yugoslavia which created a stimulating atmosphere for outstanding pieces of women's journalism, prose and verse, culminating in the creation of new women's studies courses in many universities.