 | KANITA
Federico Bugno, preface
by Izet Sajlic. Edizioni Magma – FLM Naples 1999 (It.)
Format 13x21 pp. 120 - ISBN 88-8127-031-5
After Bajram, Jugoslavia ed ex Jugoslavia 1991-1997, Federico
Bugno continues, with Kanita, to give evidence of the events
that have covered the Balkan peninsula with blood, in particular
Sarajevo and Bosnia. Kanita is a true story, the story of
a great, long and desperate love, the love of Farouk and Kanita,
broken by war since the beginning. But it is also the effort
to explain the atmosphere of the first days of war, those
days of April- May 1992, when Sarajevo’s inhabitants
could hardly believe what was occurring to them. When their
confidence in other Yugoslav peoples had not yet been destroyed
by thousands and thousands grenades and snipers’ shots.
As well as Kanita, the book contains portraits, sketches and
arguments about Marko Vesovic, the poet who burned books,
about Basciarsija’s women, Peter Handke and Sarajevo’s
spirit, the spirit that had made the Bosnian capital famous
before and during the war.
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