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Rebecca West travelled through Yugoslavia in the 1930s and produced this extraordinary book as a record of her journeys. Far more than a travel book, it provides a background history of the Balkans and a snapshot of the contemporary politics of the region. It is also notable for the vivid portraits of the people and places visited by the author. Many decades after its first publication, BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON remains one of the finest introductions to the area. According to Time magazine (12/08/1947), this book made her "indisputably the world's No. 1 woman writer."
| Details | | Series: | Twentieth-Century Classics |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 2.2 in | | Weight: | 27.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"'Black Lamb & Grey Falcon' is only nominally a travel guide: It is filled with characters observed with great sympathy at the highest possible pitch. It is also an erudite history of the Balkans, and an attempt to express West's own sensibililty as a writer, a woman, a socialist, and, above all, as a citizen of Europe on the eve of the Second World War. The strength of West's writing lies in the keenness of her eye and her fanatical insistence on her own perceptions. She glides effortlessly between literary forms--the travel book, the Bloomsbury novel, the memoir, history, political journalism--while using each to embody some particular aspect of her own consciousness."
Lingua Franca - David Samuels
"Anyone interested in the Balkans, the former Yugoslavia, Central Europe, or simply one of the most beautiful bodies of writing ever to appear in print should get hold of 'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia'... every page has at least six sentences you'll want to underline and memorize for their sheer brilliance. What an extraordinary writer!"
Wired - Brian Eno (07/01/1995)
"[N]ourished from almost bewildering erudition, chronicled with a thoughtfulness itself fervent and poetic."
New York Times - Katherine Woods (10/26/1941)
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