A fly in the soup
A fly in the soup: memoirs Charles Simic
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
ISBN: 0472111507
DDC: 811.54
LCC: PS3569
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"In this memoir by one of America's most revered contemporary poets,
Charles Simic recounts his journey from a childhood in war-torn
Yugoslavia to his coming-of-age experiences as a young bohemian in
New York City, then as a reluctant draftee in the United States Army.
Simic's early years in Belgrade, a city bombed first by the Nazis in
1941 and then by the Allies in 1944, recall memories of bombs, broken
glass, and visits from the Gestapo. His family is jailed for trying
to flee the newly Communist Yugoslavia and finally manages to
emigrate in 1953. Their first stop is Paris, where the teenaged
Simic, craving the forbidden, slips out for his first taste of French
nightlife and nudie shows. In New York and Chicago, Simic attends
high school, and his intense interests in art, poetry, jazz, film -
and women - ripen into fully formed passions. The memoir continues
with recollections of Simic's induction into the Army, the
publication of his first poem, and family dinners with his highly
opinionated but much beloved Uncle Boris." "The pieces in this
collection, previously scattered in various books and literary
magazines, have been arranged chronologically to create an unusual
memoir of exile and refugee life, a collage of stories, anecdotes,
meditations, and poetic fragments from one of the most barbaric
periods of the last century. A Fly in the Soup is both the story of a
young man whose travel agents were Hitler and Stalin and an
autobiography of the childhood and coming of age of one of the most
respected contemporary American poets."--BOOK JACKET.
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