Sarajevo Marlboro
Sarajevo Marlboro (original title: Sarajevski Marlboro ) is a book by Miljenko Jergović . It was published by Durieux Verlag in Zagreb in 1994.
content
The volume Sarajevo Marlboro consists of three parts, namely the prologue Unavoidable Detail of the Biography , the main part Reconstruction of the Events and the epilogue Who will be the witness .
Inevitable detail of the biography
The author remembers a bus trip to Jajce as a toddler . During the journey, the bus occupants witness a fatal traffic accident. The journey continues as if nothing had happened.
Reconstruction of the events
The main part pays attention to smaller events leading up to and during the Bosnian War . The narrator remembers a trip to Hvar in 1990. Afterwards he mourned his cactus and a VW Beetle during the war, even if it was difficult for him to mourn people. In addition, there are memories of his grandmother, who died in 1986 during the World Cup in 1986 , whose tombstone was erroneously predated to 1996. The eponymous name comes from the fact that the Bosnian Marlboro is said to be adapted to the local smoker's taste.
Who will be the witness
The epilogue reflects on what it feels like when a private library goes up in flames and that most of the books in private libraries are not read. An afterword by Daniela Strigl is added to some editions , which documents Jergović's biography and the circumstances in which the book was written.
reception
"Here, at the very end of" Sarajevo Marlboro ", which specifically deals with your own work as a writer, you can feel that Jergović has trouble keeping his cool tone of voice. Jergović tries to resist the temptation to fall into sentimentality about the importance of art and culture, at all costs. In this, the Bosnian proves to be the exact counterpart to Susan Sontag, who staged "Waiting for Godot" in the burning Sarajevo. Jergović has no illusions about what literature can do in the face of war. Books are beautiful as long as they are not burned. They provide warmth in an emergency. Not more. One could add: when the war is over, new books will be written. Big books like "Sarajevo Marlboro". "
“In Jergovic's short stories, the fights were not continued, were not settled or judged, but they showed the struggle of individual people with themselves and with the suddenly hostile world. Jergovic had written poetry up until then, and that explains his sure grip on the right word. "
“Jergovic remains true to his story in describing the war. Again and again he succeeds atmospherically in making the tensions and divisions in the rituals of everyday life tangible, whether it be observations on the street or in the shop around the corner. In a casual way, captured only in the fleeting phenomena of the world, a piece of Balkan history takes shape in front of the reader. It is not the great history that the media try or which will later be recorded in the history books, but the experience, the subjective perspective, but turned into the exemplary through the form "
literature
- Miljenko Jergović: Sarajevo Marlboro, novel, from the Croatian by Brigitte Döbert , with an afterword by Daniela Strigl, Verlag Schöffling & Co., Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-89561-392-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sarajevo-marlboro.700.de.html?dram:article_id=84118
- ↑ https://www.buecher.de/shop/erzaehler/sarajevo-marlboro/jergovic-miljenko/products_products/detail/prod_id/25549918/#Reviews
- ↑ https://www.buecher.de/shop/erzaehler/sarajevo-marlboro/jergovic-miljenko/products_products/detail/prod_id/25549918/#Reviews