LEADER 03503nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910813926003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-299-46370-3 010 $a0-300-16884-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168846 035 $a(CKB)2670000000335047 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24393395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860148 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11542440 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860148 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10884005 035 $a(PQKB)11476087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421190 035 $a(DE-B1597)486153 035 $a(OCoLC)841171197 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168846 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421190 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687942 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL477620 035 $a(OCoLC)923603149 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000335047 100 $a20100615d2010 uy f 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCyclops /$fRanko Marinkovic, ; translated by Vlada Stojiljkovic, ; edited by Ellen Elias-Bursac 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven [Conn.] $cYale University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (768 p.) 225 1 $aA Margellos world republic of letters book 300 $aOriginally published in Serbo-Croatian as: Kiklop. 311 0 $a0-300-15241-8 327 $tFront matter --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCYCLOPS. Teil 1 --$tCYCLOPS. Teil 2 --$tAUTHOR INFORMATION 330 $aIn his semiautobiographical novel, Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adventures of young theater critic Melkior Tresic, an archetypal antihero who decides to starve himself to avoid fighting in the front lines of World War II. As he wanders the streets of Zagreb in a near-hallucinatory state of paranoia and malnourishment, Melkior encounters a colorful circus of characters-fortune-tellers, shamans, actors, prostitutes, bohemians, and café intellectuals-all living in a fragile dream of a society about to be changed forever. A seminal work of postwar Eastern European literature, Cyclops reveals a little-known perspective on World War II from within the former Yugoslavia, one that has never before been available to an English-speaking audience. Vlada Stojiljkovic's able translation, improved by Ellen Elias-Bursac's insightful editing, preserves the striking brilliance of this riotously funny and densely allusive text. Along Melkior's journey Cyclops satirizes both the delusions of the righteous military officials who feed the national bloodlust as well as the wayward intellectuals who believe themselves to be above the unpleasant realities of international conflict. Through Stojiljkovic's clear-eyed translation, Melkior's peregrinations reveal how history happens and how the individual consciousness is swept up in the tide of political events, and this is accomplished in a mode that will resonate with readers of Charles Simic, Aleksandr Hemon, and Kundera. 410 0$aMargellos world republic of letters book. 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zYugoslavia$vFiction 607 $aZagreb (Croatia)$vFiction 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a891.8/235 700 $aMarinkovic$b Ranko$f1913-$0687639 701 $aStojiljkovic$b Vlada$f1938-$01704670 701 $aElias-Bursac$b Ellen$0699167 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813926003321 996 $aCyclops$94090840 997 $aUNINA