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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes by Macmillan in the UK and by The Viking Press in the US. The book is over 1,100 pages in modern editions and gives an account of Balkan history and ethnography during West's six-week trip to Yugoslavia in ...
- Rebecca West
- 1941
2,473 ratings378 reviews. Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern.
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19 de may. de 2024 · Indeed, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is often challenging to categorise because it seems to embody so many different genres of writing. Certainly, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) can be a daunting book simply because of its massive scale; at 1150 pages it is truly epic in length alone.
By Rebecca West. he gray falcon is an enigmatic figure in a Slav folksong about a military defeat in the year 1389; and it offered the Serbian king a choice which expresses the sad dilemma of...
A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships among its ethnic groups.
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perspicacious critics recognized.2 Indeed, concerning questions of genre, West's critics can agree on only one point: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon "is more than a travel book" (Glendinning 32).3 As Victoria Glendinning recently argued in her memorial essay on West, the
30 de ene. de 2007 · A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon probes the troubled history of the Balkans and the uneasy relationships...
