The Fortress (Writings from an Unbound Europe)

Meša Selimović

Northwestern University Press

1999

406 páginas

13h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780810117136

The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the former Yugoslavia. Ahmet Shabo returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in Russia, numbed by the death in battle or suicide of nearly his entire military unit. In time he overcomes the anguish of war, only to find that he has emerged a reflective and contemplative man in a society that does not value, and will not tolerate, the subversive implications of these qualities.