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Ellen Elias-Bursać

Book Review: “The Butcher’s Trail” — A Masterful Account of Tracking Down Balkan War Criminals

Anybody who has the good sense to pick up a copy of this book will find it instantly fascinating.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursać Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Bosnia, Croatia, Ellen-Elias-Bursac, Julian Borger, Kosovo, Other Press, Serbia, The Butcher's Trail: The Secret History of the Balkan Manhunt for Europe's Most-Wanted War Criminals

Book Review: In “Europe in Sepia,” Croatian Writer Dubravka Ugrešić Bets a Few Chips on the Future

Translator David Williams has hit upon a judicious combination of snappy repartee and dark underbelly that communicates essayist Dubravka Ugrešić’s rapier wit and black despair in equal measure.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursać Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Dubravka-Ugresic, Europe in Sepia, nonfiction-in-translation, Open Letter Press

Book Review: “Lessons from Sarajevo” — Talking About What War Means

In this powerful book, Jim Hicks explores a collection of narratives about the experience of war in many genres and a wide range of media that eschew the sentimental.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursać Filed Under: Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Jim Hicks, Lessons from Sarajevo: A War Stories Primer

Poetry Review: Translucent Translations — “Wheel with a Single Spoke”

Nichita Stănescu is one of the poets who broke through the socialist-realism sound barrier and propelled Romanian poetry into new spheres.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursać Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, fiction-in-translation, Nichita Stănescu, poetry in translation, Romanian, Sean Cotter, Wheel with a Single Spoke

Book Review: The Print-Pantheist — Cyprian Norwid’s “Poems”

In light of the many translations of Cyprian Norwid’s verse into English, Danuta Borchardt thought carefully about what she was going to focus on.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursac Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Archipelago-Books, Cyprian Norwid', Danuta Borchardt, Poetry, Polish poetry, translation

Book Review: “Animalinside” — Exploring the Cosmic Intersection Between Painting and Prose

There is an almost Biblical resonance of utter destruction and an improbable, fervid humor in the prose of ANIMALINSIDE as the beast speaks directly to us, its voice moving between trapped panic, cunning hunger, and a vicious savagery.

By: Ellen Elias-Bursac Filed Under: Books Tagged: Animalinside, Hungarian fiction, Hungary, László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, The Melancholy of Resistance, War & War

Arts Commentary: Translating at the War-Crimes Tribunal in The Hague

“There were times when I felt as if I were perpetually stuck, like in that film, ‘Groundhog Day,’ in the spring of 1992 just as Bosnia was careening into conflict. At one point I went to Sarajevo to visit friends and was relieved, indeed surprised, to find that while I had been re-living the war over and over, the city was gradually rebuilding and leaving the war behind.”

By: Ellen Elias-Bursać Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: Bosnia, Croatia, Daša Drndić, David-Albahari, Dubravka-Ugresic, former Yugoslavia, ICTY, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladić, Serbia, Svetlana Broz, War Crimes Tribunal

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