ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1900 - 1949.
Jezik: Engleski
Tematika: Književnost
Kulturno dobro: Predmet koji prodajem nije kulturno dobro ili ovlašćena institucija odbija pravo preče kupovine
Autor: Strani

Stephen Graham - St. Vitus Day

Stiven Grejem - Vidovdan

Ernest Ben LTD, London, 1930.
Tvrd povez, 288 strana, pecat bivseg vlasnika na forzecu.
IZUZETNO RETKO PRVO IZDANJE!

British travel writer and novelist Stephen Graham (1884-1975) who is almost forgotten today. That is a shame. Graham had an amazing life. He lived in Russia in the turbulent years before the 1917 Revolution. He served in the trenches in northern France in 1918. In the 1920s he became friends with literary figures ranging from H.G. Wells to Ernest Hemingway. He spent much of the 1930s in Yugoslavia - living and writing in the Julian Alps - although in Belgrade he was widely believed to be a British spy. And then in the Second World War he worked for the BBC, broadcasting to Yugoslavia, both when it was occupied by the Germans and `liberated` by Stalin`s Red Army.
In 1929 Stephen Graham visited Yugoslavia planning to write a novel about the terrorists who had assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Jne 1914. He took introductions from Dmitrije Mitrionovic who had been on the fringes of the group which carried out the murder. The novel Stephen wrote - St Vitus Day - described the conspiracy leading up to the assassination in almost documentary fashion. It is clear that he had obtained information from Mtrinovic and others on the fringes of the conspiracy. The book was well-reviewed in Britain and translated into Serbo-Croat - winning Stephen many friends in Yugoslavia.

Stephen spent much of the 1930s in Yugoslavia, renting a house in the Julian Alps, close to the Austrian border. The appeal was two-fold. Stephen`s finances suffered in the wake of the Wall Street crash - and life in provincial Yugoslavia was comparatively cheap. In the second place, he had met and fallen in love with Dmitrije`s sister Vera. The two of them travelled extensively through Yugoslavia (Stephen was later to write of their experiences in his book The Moving Tent). He also published a novel, Balkan Monastery, describing Vera`s experiences as a young girl in the First World War when she was sent to an orphanage where she faced harsh treatment. Stephen was by the mid 1930s a well-known figure in Yugoslavia, and he was able to interview members of the Royal Family and senior ministers in order to write his book Alexander of Yugoslavia, which described the murder of the Yugoslavian king by terrorists on a trip to Marseilles in 1934. Yugoslavia never entirely replaced Russia in Stephen`s heart and head. It did nevertheless win an important place in his heart - along with Vera - and he travelled extensively to the country until just a few years before his death.