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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US. The book is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during West's six-week trip to Yugoslavia in ...
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- 1941
2,473 ratings378 reviews. Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the ...
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perspicacious critics recognized.2 Indeed, concerning questions of genre, West's critics can agree on only one point: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon "is more than a travel book" (Glendinning 32).3 As Victoria Glendinning recently argued in her memorial essay on West, the
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the ...
By Rebecca West. he gray falcon is an enigmatic figure in a Slav folksong about a military defeat in the year 1389; and it offered the Serbian king a choice which expresses the sad dilemma of...
7 de abr. de 1996 · Rebecca West wrote her masterpiece on Yugoslavia, "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" during World War II; she believed that the war's source lay in Yugoslavia's history of conflict between the...
Há 1 dia · Black Lamb and Grey Falcon raises significant questions about women’s identities within Yugoslavia and is interesting for its use of West as the protagonist, author, foreign outsider and woman who is perceived within these landscapes and cultures.
