On the Wrong Track: Fragments of an Autobiography

by Milo Dor

Dor, Milo, Scrase, David A., Kelley, Jennifer

241 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Milo Dor (born as Milutin Doroslovac) was a writer and translator. He described himself as "an Austrian, Viennese, and European of Serbian heritage."

He wrote historical novels dealing with Yugoslavian and European history, essays criticising nationalism in Yugoslavia, crime fiction, news coverages, screenplays and radio dramas, edited documentaries and anthologies and translated Serbo-Croatian literature into German. Authors he translated include Ivo Andrić, Isaak Babel, Bogdan Bogdanović, Stephen Crane, Dušan Kovačević, Miroslav Krleža, Branislav Nušić, Vasko Popa, Georges Simenon, Stanislav Vinaver, and Milovan Vitezović. Beginning in the 1950s, he wrote numerous books in cooperation with Reinhard Federmann.

Dor's best known work is The Raikow Saga, a trilogy consisting of Tote auf Urlaub [Dead men on leave:], Nichts als Erinnerung [Nothing but memories:], and Die weiße Stadt [The white town:].