Aleksandar Hemon
Live at the Prague Writers' Festival, 3 - 6 June.
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Featuring Aleksandar Hemon Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo in 1964. By the time he graduated from the University of Sarajevo, at the age of 26, he was already a published author, albeit one who wrote for magazines in Serbo-Croatian. |
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Aleksandar Hemon In conversation with Michael March |
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Aleksandar Hemon: The Conductor In the 1989 “Anthology of Contemporary Bosnian Poetry,” Muhamed D. was represented with four poems. My copy of the anthology disappeared during the war, and I cannot recall the titles, but I do remember the subjects: one of them was about all the minarets of Sarajevo lighting up simultaneously at sunset on a Ramadan day; another was about the deaf Beethoven conducting his Ninth Symphony, unaware of the audience’s ovations until the contralto touched his shoulder and turned him around. |
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Aleksandar Hemon: Nowhere Man {chapter 2} Jozef Pronek was born in the Sarajevo maternity hospital, on September 10, 1967, after thirty-seven hours of excruciating labor, the culmination of which was his mother's oath, as Jozef's little head was stuck between her legs halfway into the world, that she would strangle him with her own hands if he didn't come out immediately. |
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Aleksandar Hemon: Nowhere Man {chapter 3} Meantime We Will express our darker purposes. Chicago, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Warsaw, whence I took a cheap train to Ukraine. I boarded my train, found the couchette waiting for me, enveloped in thick veils of smoke and an obscure cologne called Antarctica: |
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Aleksandar Hemon: Nowhere Man {chapter 7} On the horizon you could see black, bloated, heinous clouds leading a storm charge. And the sea kept licking the rusty ship—the Pamyat—loaded with destitute men, officers and soldiers alike, left with nothing but their honor, still wearing impeccable uniforms, exuding a faint scent of the Trans-Siberian railway. |
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