Abstracts

FORUM

ALEŠ DEBELJAK
My private Balkan - erosion of memory and its dangers. The Slovene writer talks about his fascination with Balkan literarature, reflected in his prose.

WOJCIECH STANISŁAWSKI
Ruritania Revisited. On Vesna Goldsworthy's widely discussed book . Goldsworthy focuses on the origin of the Balkan stereotypes as presented in the British literature of the last two hundred years.

ADAM BALCER
The role of religion in the conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia. A multilevel analysis on religious and ethnic relations in Macedonia and Kosovo, with a focus on the role of the ortodox church in the process of building national identities.

PREDRAG MATVEJEVIĆ
A journey to Mostar. An account of the well-known author's journey to his home city - Mostar, that is still divided into two parts. All efforts taken up to connect the two river sides seem to have been unsuccessful.

MERSAD BERBER'S PAINTING STUDIO

LITERARY CORNER

Poems by

BOGOMIL GUZEL, one of the best Macedonian modern poets;

KATARZYNA RYRYCH, a Polish poet fascinated with the Balkan culture;

JAN MIRGA, a Gipsy poet living in the Polish mountains.

Prose

MILJENKO JERGOVIĆ
Buick Rivera. A fragment of the novel by the Bosnian writer, living in Zagreb

MORDECHAI ARIELI
Ashkenazian. A possible biography. Fragment of a novel written by the Israeli author, professor at the University of Tel-Aviv.

SHOSHANA RONEN
Journeys to Poland in modern Israeli literature. What kind of feelings do Jewish writers experience when thinking of a journey to Poland? The author analyses four literary testimonies describing the encounters and the perception of the former inhabitants of the Republic of Poland on their country.

MILCHO MANCHEVSKI'S FILM STUDIO

CULTURAL CIRCLES

BASHKIM SHEHU
The anatomy of a dictator's library

SHKELZEN MALIQI
On the other side

OUT OF PRINT

JÓZEF MACKIEWICZ
The revolt of the Rostoys (A Szwarce-Bor; The road to heaven leads through a marshy desert)

ANDRZEJ KOWALCZYK
The reporter of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania

PERIPHERIES

ADAM PŁOCIŃSKI
Głębokie

JOVICA AĆIN
Enchanted Bruno Schulz

ASIAN STUDIO

TOMASZ KAMUSELLA
The President

TOMASZ KAMUSELLA
Dinosaur

WOJCIECH ALBIŃSKI
198 notes from the expedition to Tien-szan mountains

MACIEJ RYCHŁY'S MUSIC STUDIO

ODDS AND ENDS

MILETA PRODANOVIĆ
Stories from Ohrid and Prilep

ALEKSANDER POKOPIEV
Three Aunts

GYORGY KONRAD
What drives Ryszard Kapuściński