The Question of Bruno. Much like his protagonist in the novella Blind Jozef Pronek Dead Souls, the cornerstone of this collection of eight stories, Hemon came to the U.S. as a tourist, but had. · Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo in He moved to Chicago in with only a basic command of English. He began writing in English in His fictio. The volume is shot through with a dry, deadpan humor that is clearly a defensive carapace grown in response to decades of Stalinist/Titoist falsifications and repression, as well as an understandable fascination with the grim detritus of Balkan history. Hemon's prose suffers occasionally from the overstudious diction of the non-native speaker.
Except for the Kauders story, Hemon draws on his own life for the pieces in ''The Question of Bruno,'' though most are partly fictional. An exception, possibly, is the family reunion in ''Exchange of Pleasant Words,'' which has the largeness of a great memoir. The Question of Bruno: Stories (Vintage International) - Kindle edition by Hemon, Aleksandar. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Question of Bruno: Stories (Vintage International). Aleksandar Hemon (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Xeмoн; born September 9, ) is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man () and The Lazarus Project ().. He frequently publishes in The New Yorker and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, and.
The Question of Bruno is a novella and stories that are linked by characters, by locations, by interwoven substories, and by a literary voice so strong and sensitive that no matter how many guises it adopts, the stories cannot help but gather momentum and join together as a powerfully inventive whole. This item: The Question of Bruno: Stories. by Aleksandar Hemon Paperback. $ Only 4 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by bltadwin.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) by Elizabeth Hardwick Paperback. $ The Question of Bruno By ALEKSANDAR HEMON Nan A. Talese. Read the Review. We got up at dawn, ignored the yolky sun, loaded our navy-blue Austin with suitcases and.
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