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I read this book for months (I believe I started it in July). West is a fabulous stylist and an often astute observer. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. About. Rebecca went to Yugoslavia in the interwar period and wrote this book. The book is the record of a two-month road trip through much of Yugoslavia by a British writer, who meticulously and fastidiously recorded everything that she and her husband experienced on their way. Although she refutes others' categories of superior and inferior races, she herself, at times, assigns relative value to different racial or ethnic groups. 2017 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 2] 2020 The Return of the Soldier. $29.88; $28.07 ; In Stock. I'd like to be able to give it 5 stars but 4 stars is nearer the mark for this reader. "The Golden Bough" describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Massive massive game changing book and much respect to Rebecca West because the research and detail that must have gone into that book just must have been eye-wateringly massive! If you know Charlotte Mason "spreading a living feast " and ever wondered what it would look like for students who have tasted it, Rebecca West is the final product of it. The book isn’t really a travel book as you would imagine but for me this covered a journey through the psyche of the Slavic people – a mind map of them if you will. Also, at the beginning of each book are references to chapters that appear in the book. 6 stars. I imagine this book and I will be together on and off for some months, like a Proust project. His review is, This book is as much of a battleground as the Balkans. Gerda stands in for everything nasty that an Englishwoman might attribute to a German in the 1930s. Although I don't agree with all her opinions, and some of her flights of fancy verge on the tedious, she nevertheless su. Perhaps I'll pick up the book again at a later date. It is part travelog, part history, and part literature. I have no idea how I will write a review of it but someday soon I will try. Wells, with whom she had a son. I started this mammoth book a few years ago but ended up putting it aside. She sets Byzantium as her standard for judging "civilization" and is attracted to Orthodox Catholicism. There's a mantra that real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. WWII was the only second conflict between Serbs and Croats, and it is the unresolved issues from that time that the nationalist leaders were able to hijack to such devastating effect 50 years later (the first conflict, WWI, was likewise imposed from outside). Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of…, The Bridge on the Drina (Bosnian Trilogy, #1). Black Lamb and Grey Falcon records a journey taken by West and her husband Paul, a banker, through the former Yugoslavia in 1934. Her book makes many things clear. Start by marking “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. AbeBooks.com: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Penguin Classics) (9780143104902) by West, Rebecca and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 1150 pages including the Epilogue but not the Bibliography! If you know Charlotte Mason "spreading a living feast " and ever wondered what it would look like for students who have tasted it, Rebecca West is the final product of it. It is one of the great books of the 20th century, a magnum opus. Add to basket. -- and embellishes it with his own ironic humor, brilliant insights, and…, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, D'ARTAGNAN ROMANCES: The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Ten Years Later, Louise de la Valliere, The Man in the Iron Mask (FLT Classics Series). Could just be my interpretation but the book was split into chapters and there were 2 dedicated to Serbia and older Serbia. Not since Margeuerite Yourcenar have I felt so humbled and awed by a woman author, whose breadth and scope of panoramic vision is magnificent. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Brilliant book. Read 310 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. To see what your friends thought of this book, Writing a five-star review full of superlatives is always difficult: for people who haven’t read it yet, there’s no way any book can live up to the kind of praise that someone who loves it wants to give out. Rebecca West (1892-1983) was a novelist, biographer, journalist, and critic. The author is well read and it shows in the travel journal writing. Tags: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Croatia, Friday Reads, GoodReads, Rebecca West, Yugoslavia | Reblog (0) Comments. This apropos VS Naipul’s spurious attack on female authors as being incapable of breadth and scope. It's beautifully written, it's funny, it's a travel book and a memoir from a time and place on the other side of an abyss. Goodreads members who liked this book also liked: The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997, 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. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, …. Many Bosnians had moved to our neighborhood after Bill Clinton finally, and belatedly, awarded them refugee status. Google keeps blanking out on the title, but there’s a Ford Madox Ford novel where the main character hears about a friend’s engagement and asks himself why any man would choose to get married. Fairfield and B/W Illus; Map on End Papers | Jan 1, 1958 Hardcover I can't forget the words of an old woman in Montenegro; "If I had to live, why should my life have been like this? When their mother sends them off to live with their father in Mali they begin t…, Omnibus 1: Gitanjali/The Post Office/Creative Unity/Hungry Stones & Other Stories/Gora/My Boyhood Days, The Rabindranath Tagore Omnibus I brings together six of Tagore's acclaimed works. Having said all that I would be lying if I said that I had read all that there was to read about the wars that had happened in the past in that area from the Serbian side, if honest, I don’t think I had read anything from that angle at all, so to hear about some of the Turkish atrocities and the impact of circa 500 years of Turkish rule in that area from “the other side” although written by a diplomatic English lady, was quite eye opening. I also happened to be spending most of my cafe hours at a place owned by a Bosnian couple. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary, and historical insight, Black Lamb and Grey Fal… However, some of her claims/ views are either dated (she was writing in the 1930s and early 1940s just as WWII was preparing itself and getting underway) or downright wrong-headed. She seems to dislike or disapprove of both Roman Catholicism and Islam (although she does admire the “sensuousness” of the Turks). Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. But earlier this year, on the recommendation of another blogger, I bought Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, one of her later books. I have been reading it at the approximate rate of 5 pages a day, with some breaks, since July 22, 2019. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, 9781841957876, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. This time I made it through. We’d love your help. This shameful gap has now been addressed by this wonderful novella, an incredibly touching portrait of deep love and of loneliness. More Books by Rebecca West & Christopher Hitchens See All. She published eight novels in addition to her masterpiece Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, for which she made several trips to the Balkans.Following World War II, she also published two books on the relation of the individual to the state, called The Meaning of Treason and A Train of Powder. What a woman. Around one million Armenians were killed, and the survivors were scattered across the world.…, The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, Born in Guadeloupe, Ivan and Ivana are twins with a bond so strong they become afraid of their feelings for one another. That cannot help but inspire respect, though if you agree with everything she says in this book I'll start thinking you are her clone. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published According to Alan Jacobs, "very possibly the greatest book of the 20th century." Including some that did not manifest themselves until long after her death. That cannot help but inspire respect, though if you agree with everything she says in this book I'll start thinking you are her clone. The shadow of WWII hangs over this and adds even more intensity. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. I have no idea how I will write a review of it but someday soon I will try. Holy Mother of God. 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2. ‎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. It includes Gitanjali, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, a selection of 103 poems that took the world…. Including some that did not manifest themselves until long after her death. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it highly. Another epic book on the Balkans. Spending what turned out to be 6 weeks with Rebecca West, her husband, her Serbian Jewish guide Constantine and his Nazi wife Gerda as they tour what was then Yugoslavia filling my head with philosophy, Byzantine art, history both modern and medieval, ethnography, descriptions of seedy inns and filling meals was the kind of immersion in a brilliant and quirky mind that reminded me both in pleasure and in length of the times I've spent with Proust. It was given to me as a gift and I was intimidated by the heft. As a Muslim myself the one qualm that I had with the book was what I perceived to be a very pro-Serbian angle to it. I finally finished this mother. There's a wonderful intro by Christopher Hitchens in the Penguin edition (which I don't have), but you can get said intro free from Kindle if you order the sample of the book. 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