Summary
Bora Ćosić: Tales of Crafts
Malaparte, the famous war novelist, could no doubt like the narrative prose of Bora Cosić. Bora Cosić is thirty-five years old and, as it seems to me, he answers the question of what he did during the war in an original and shrewd way with his great, stylistically extravagant book "Stories about trades". - Draška Redjep
Cards for Schwarzer-Peter will be played here in poker. - Viktor Žmegač, 1968.
At times, the author's style became so identified with Babel's that it serves to honor his sensibility. No matter how easy and cheerfully Ćosić's stories seem to be interwoven with "witty" statements, we will not be deprived of the conviction that the author is having a very serious conversation about the world in which he lives. His ability to see that world as a stage on which human "crafts" take place only testifies to the possession of an authentic predilection for the parodic and satirical. All these human activities take place on bare boards, without flora and fauna, without landscape and environment. Executed in exceptional purity and precision, they win precisely because of their small number and conciseness. Bora Cosić is undeniably the real, and it seems to me, the only pro-Partist author in Serbian literature. - Branimir Donat, 1970.
... I think this will happen to many people who will be reading Bora Cosić's renewed book "Stories of Crafts" this fall... Bora Ćosić is both new and strong and modern in the way of great writers and I am sure that he is one of the few contemporaries whose fame will increase with each new decade.
The big question is: what will we call your book? To us here, it seems the best How our pianos are repaired Wie unsere Klaviere repariert wurden, what would you say to that? - Peter Urban
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