Avala Is Falling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jovanović, Biljana.

Contributor:

Cox, John K.

Series:

CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Serbia--Fiction.

Young women.

Serbia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2020.

Summary:

In Avala Is Falling, Jovanović’s breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers, and doctors have for her. The “Avala” of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some of Serbia’s most important nationalist monuments and shrines; it is also the site of the main mental hospital for the region, and its “falling” is the unexpected fulfillment of a prophecy from a traditional Serbian folk song. Jovanović’s use of stream of consciousness in her characters’ thinking and speaking, as well as of intertextuality in description and plot advancement heralded the arrival of an innovative new writer who was determined to break with the of traditional concerns of earlier women writers. This book is now recognized as much more than “jeans prose,” although the fame the book achieved under that characterization eventually pushed it to cult status. Jovanović is now considered a major avant-garde writer, whose stylistic innovations were as challenging as her women-centered themes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE Introductory Remarks by Jelena’s Biographer

CHAPTER TWO Mr. Swede, the Moustache

CHAPTER THREE Mića, the Future Officer

CHAPTER FOUR Propellers, Motors I

CHAPTER FIVE Marijana Says: “There’s a Daffodil between my Legs”

CHAPTER SIX Bautista Van Šoven (Bautista Van Schouwen)

CHAPTER SEVEN Propellers, Motors II

CHAPTER EIGHT Aunt Maša’s House Rules

CHAPTER NINE The Secretary of the Tenants’ Council, and a Volunteer

CHAPTER TEN Playing Chess on Dositelj Street

CHAPTER ELEVEN The Lookout (The Words of the Anonymous Man Who Longs to Love Jelena’s Body)

CHAPTER TWELVE Jelena’s Siamese Twin

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Jelena’s Second Letter

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Mathematical Symbols for Jelena’s Future, or Zoran’s Lips

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Jelena’s First Letter

EPILOGUE

AFTERWORD

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-71841-8

963-386-357-0

9781003718413

OCLC:

1249472244