false 2641198 2 Borislav Pekic's The Houses of Belgrade, first published in 1970, draws a parallel between the unrest culminating in the Belgrade student riots of 1968 and that at two earlier points in the history of Yugoslavia: the riots which immediately preceded Germany's attack on Belgrade in the spring of 1941 and the turmoil of Serbia's entry into World War I. Pekic relates his tale through the character of Arsenie Negovan, one of the prime builders of houses in Belgrade. Although Arsenie is dying, losing his sanity as his life seeps away, his narrative is sustained by his intellectual and aesthetic vision, by his love of buildings and his passionate obsession with the houses of Belgrade. Through this metaphor of the gradual decline of a builder's mind, Pekic gives us a compelling look at the unspoken fear of loss and destruction in a chronically disrupted urban society. 1708994 1978 The Houses of Belgrade (Writings from an Unbound Europe) total:7|5:1|4:2|3:4| 7 25 13 0 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 16:39:33 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 16:39:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 04 10:32:32 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 10:32:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 04 21:44:51 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 21:44:51 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 07:31:40 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 13 05:37:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Feb 16 03:30:12 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 03:30:12 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Feb 12 15:10:01 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 15:10:13 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jan 18 21:26:35 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 21:26:35 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 09 09:55:12 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 05:30:44 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Jul 06 17:00:39 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 17:00:39 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Apr 14 10:51:42 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 10:51:42 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 06 08:45:39 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 08:45:39 -0800 2008 5 0 true true Sun Feb 17 06:18:51 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 06:18:51 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Aug 16 05:52:17 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 05:52:17 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2641198