The Time of Miracles (Writings from an Unbound Europe) [Paperback]

Borislav Pekic (Author), Lovett F. Edwards (Translator)

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Serbo-Croation

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press (March 2, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810111179
• ISBN-13: 978-0810111172
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > Literature & Fiction > World Literature > Slavic

More About the Author

Borislav Pekic is considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century, continually attracting the attention of literary scholars and the public at large. His thorough knowledge of the long tradition of European thought from Plato to Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Martin Heidegger, together with the artistic affiliation with his literary peers--Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn--has greatly helped reintegrate Serbian literature into major European trends.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, December 1, 2005

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Andrija - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Time of Miracles (Writings from an Unbound Europe) (Paperback)

This is one of the most interesting books I ever read. Mr. Pekic extends the Christian mythology in the surprising and not predictable way, keeping all the time a logical (but very different) approach and a consistent story. He does not suggest anything, but telling the story in his style, he forces a reader to come to sensational conclusions/explanations.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pekic questions our faith and god's faith in us., September 21, 2000

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Tanja Pavlovic (Washington DC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Time of Miracles (Writings from an Unbound Europe) (Paperback)

Christ had a mission on this earth. There was a prophesy that needed to be fulfiled. For Christ to be proven a real son of the God he had to perform the miracles. Did he perform the miricles as to get the credibility to represent his Father or to save the humankind?

What if those people that the miracle was performed on didn't want to be saved? Was He prepared to wrongfuly harm a few people for the benefit of our race? What an impact would such a assumtion have on our faith?

Read The Time of Miracles as to get a difrent perspective on cristian mythology, you will be amazed with the original and brave content of this book.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a very good book and I strongly recomend it., October 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Time of Miracles (Writings from an Unbound Europe) (Paperback)

This book represents the time of early communism in Yugoslavia, but also is "a quest for meaning of life" as all of Pekic's books are (e.g. "Golden Wool" in seven books).