Literature and Film from East Europe's Forgotten Second World: Essays of Invitation

ISBN-13: 9781501370694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str.

Gordana P. Crnkovic

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Introduction: On Invitations and Discoveries Part I: Invitations 1. The Flight of Form: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Tadeusz Borowski, Poland, 1948) 2. The Gift of a Story-Teller: The Bridge on the Drina (Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, 1961) 3. Over There, the War Does Not End: The General of the Dead Army (Ismail Kadare, Albania, 1963) 4. On Kindness: Two Films from 1960s Czechoslovakia (directors Miloš Forman, Ján Kádar & Elmar Klos) 5. That Was There Too: Man Is Not a Bird (Dušan Makavejev, director, Yugoslavia, 1965) 6. The Fireworks of Different Desires: Daisies (Vera Chytilová, director, Czechoslovakia, 1966) 7. The Most Important Thing: Lovefilm (István Szabó, director, Hungary, 1970) 8. Fiction Against Fiction: A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Danilo Kiš, Yugoslavia, 1976) 9. On Mice and Books: Too Loud a Solitude (Bohumil Hrabal, Czechoslovakia, 1976) 10. Taking Things Too Literally: Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda, director, Poland, 1976) 11. A Terrifying Simplicity of History: The Czar’s Madman (Jaan Kross, Estonia, 1978) 12. Human Judging and Animal Love: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakia & France, 1984) 13. A Non-Readers’ Lesson to Writers: The Door (Magda Szabó, Hungary, 1987) 14. Intelligence, Artificial: Decalogue: One (Krzysztof Kieslowski, director, Poland, 1988) 15. Nela’s Courage: The Oak (Lucian Pintilie, director, Romania, 1992) Part II: Probing Deeper 1. The Victim’s Double Vision and the Long Road to The Pianist (Roman Polanski, director, Poland etc., 2002) 2. Imagining a Good City: One Who Sings Thinks No Evil (a.k.a. One Song a Day Takes Mischief Away, Krešo Golik, director, Yugoslavia, 1970) 3. The Reign of Images and the Good Icons: Mothers (Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia, 2010) 4. Easing Into the Non-Human Future: Border State (Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonia, 1993) 5. On Reading Literature: Turning the Tables, the Writers on Critics Bibliography Index