Le givre et la cendre
by Samic, Jasna
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Through three diaries written at different times (around the 1940-1945 war, before and after the 1992-1995 war) by three members of the same family, Jasna Samic, torn between a tough survival in Paris where she is constantly threatened with expulsion and stays in Sarajevo where his father lived his last moments, gives us a novel about the difficult relationship between a daughter and her father, but also about exile and the rapid disintegration of Bosnian society on the eve of the war that will tear the Balkans in the 90s.
An Ödön von Horvath’s sentence acts of faith in this double exile novel : “I have no homeland and of course I do no suffer of that. The concept of homeland, falsified by nationalism, is foreign to me ... My country is the mind. "
As in all the work of Jasna Samic, "Le givre et la cendre" is a double exile novel. Loving both French culture and the Balkan atmosphere, the author, when in Sarajevo, dreams of Paris and, when in Paris, dreams of Sarajevo.
The painting of the economic, political and moral decomposition of Bosnian society that preceded and provoked the war and the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1995) must be a warning in these times when our old world without project sees the rise up everywhere of nationalist demons he seems to have forgotten the devastation.
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« Le Givre et la Cendre » takes us back to the turbulent years of the Balkan powder keg. Visnja, the narrator, a journalist for RFI in the 1990s, must move to Sarajevo to attend his father at death's door. But there, they do not forgive her her intellectual life in “bourgeois” circles, they imagine comfortable, while her country after Tito's death, enters a period of economic, moral and cultural decay. Moreover, Yugoslavia, mosaic of states, religions, languages, is on the verge of bursting. The idea of a Great Serbia dominating the other communities is emerging. Jasna, in her diary, will describe the material difficulties of her stay, but also the difficulty of being an intellectual, a writer, in such a clash of opinions. At the same time,living his last moments, his father will resume a diary describing his youth, the years before the war, education, marriage, and later his father-daughter relationship. I found the style of Jasna Samic delicate, precise, in line with events, with its relations towards intellectuals of all stripes. A very good book. (Zwijns, Babelio)
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Author Biography
Born in Sarajevo, Jasna Samic lives in Paris. Specialist of Eastern Languages, Literatures and Civilizations, she taught at the Universities of Sarajevo and Strasbourg, was associate research director at CNRS, collaborated on France Culture and Radio France International. Choosen for the "Stendhal Missions" program, she currently directs the magazine "Književna Sehara", published in Serbo-croatian, English and French. She is also a translater and documentary filmmaker.
She writes in French and Bosnian (Serbo-Croatian).
Her work includes texts (including scientists) on Sufism and history of the Balkans, essays, novels, short stories, poetry and theater (she staged in Paris and Sarajevo)
Following the publication of "Portrait of Balthazar" and her stance against the rise of Wahhabi in BiH, Jasna Samic was violently attacked by the Bosnian fundamentalists, who are calling for a fatwa against her. She regularly receives death threats and was adopted by the International PEN Club as a writer in danger.
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- Publisher M.E.O.
- Publication Date December 2015
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782807000568
- Publication Country or regionBelgium
- FormatBook
- Primary Price 22 EUR
- Pages284
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2015
- Dimensions210 x 148 mm
- IllustrationNone
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