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The Unforgotten.('The Accordion')
In Joseph Roth's novel of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "The Radetzky March," there is an extraordinary scene in which the varied soldiers of that vast, improbable portmanteau parade in Vienna before the Hapsburg emperor, Franz Joseph. Uniformed men stream by, Austrians, Italians, Hungarians, Slovenians, and--most remarkably and most exotically--Bosnians, vivid in their "blood-red fezzes," which seemed to glow, Roth writes, like bonfires lit by Islam in tribute to the Emperor himself. Those blood-red fezzes are all Roth needs to conjure the distant romance of the Bosnian subjects, who disappear from the novelistic pageant as quickly as they flashed by.
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- Chovrelat, Genevieve. Louis Hemon, la vie a ecrire.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Quebec Studies Carr, Thomas M., Jr. September 22, 2007 700+ words
CHOVRELAT, GENEVIEVE. Louis Hemon, la vie a ecrire. Leuven: Peeters, 2003...century saw a rebirth of scholarship on Louis Hemon, culminating in the publication by Aurelien Boivin of Hemon's OEuvres completes. Genevieve Chovrelat...
- Bleton, Paul et Poirier, Mario. Le vagabond stoique. Louis Hemon.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Quebec Studies Williamson, Richard C. March 22, 2005 700+ words
...POIRIER, MARIO. Le vagabond stoique. Louis Hemon. (Collection "Socius") Montreal...by literary critics, its author, Louis Hemon, has remained relatively unknown and misunderstood...who published the Oeuvres completes of Hemon in the early 1990's, Paul Bleton, a...
- In Your Ear: Author Aleksandar Hemon
- Transcript from: NPR Tell Me More JENNIFER LUDDEN August 27, 2009 700+ words
...2009 In Your Ear: Author Aleksandar Hemon Host: JENNIFER LUDDEN Time 09:00-10...Recently we interview author Aleksandar Hemon to talk about his just published short...Matthew's Passion") Mr. ALEKSANDAR HEMON (Author): My three favorite pieces of...
- While no longer Bosnian, they are not yet American; Aleksandar Hemon brings...
- Newspaper article from: The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario) May 24, 2009 700+ words
...as seen through the words of Aleksandar Hemon is a crisply described place, glittering...a nest of sky-begging antennas." Hemon's previous books, including his novels...protagonists in Love and Obstacles, like Hemon himself, are no longer Bosnian, but not...
- Aleksandar Hemon. Nowhere Man.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Pinker, Michael June 22, 2003 700+ words
...pp. $23.95. Josef Pronek appears in Hemon's novel as the narrator, who, calling...together), to life as an exile in Chicago, Hemon delves into Pronek's representative nature...the masquerades we buy and sell to live. Hemon's readers have met Pronek before, but...
- Aleksandar Hemon. The Lazarus Project.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Pinker, Michael September 22, 2008 700+ words
Aleksandar Hemon. The Lazarus Project. Riverhead Books...down in his new home shortly afterward. Hemon's double narrative begins with Lazarus...old country. In the episodes in which Hemon imaginatively recreates the milieu of bygone...
- The Question of Bruno.(Aleksandar Hemon)
- Magazine article from: Book July 1, 2001 700+ words
For the most part, the reaction to Aleksandar Hemon's short-story collection, The Question of Bruno, was...I guess I'll never have friends on the far right," Hemon says.) Hereon is from Bosnia, but he moved to Chicago in...
- Maria and her mother: conflict and continuity in 'Maria Chapdelaine.'...
- Symposium Brault, Gerard J. June 22, 1996 700+ words
...of World War I and with over ten million copies sold, Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine is among the all-time French-language...much controversy.(2) It cannot be gainsaid, however, that Hemon, a Frenchman who worked for a year as a farm hand at Peribonka...