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...Erih Kos-Har-courf, Brace & World...
...forceful words, always heavy, coarse, masculine nouns, signifying something huge, strong and powerful, which reminded me of the whale." In horror he finds whales swimming into his own conversation-"a whale of a time," "the Prince of Wales." Martyrdom's Delusion. In this superb social satire, Erih Kos, himself a Yugoslav bureaucrat, dissects the evils of conformity with a fanciful touch that scarcely disguises the depth of his intent; his message is reminiscent of lonesco's Rhinoceros-the battle for individuality is worth fighting against any odds. When Big Mac was published in Yugoslavia, orthodox critics and even...
...Kos, 49, is well known in Yugoslavia for a heroic novel (Tifo) and some short stories. Critics there praise him for his efforts to establish social satire in Yugoslavia (despite the fact that as director of the National Museum he is obliged to take the government seriously). But his grasp of the satiric method is so masterful that he keeps several lines of intent running at once-the narrative, the lesson, the joke-creating an impression of charm, not bitterness, of critical appreciation, not disloyalty. To make a point, he follows Voltaire's example and speaks in Panglossian didactics...
...Hotel Miramare is on a good beach, has private bungalows, charges $10 for a single room). Sailing up the chain, travelers experience even more the feel of how the Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives in New Jersey"); wooded Samos, divided from Turkey by a spectacular channel; Chios, one of Homer...
Hausmusik. The most popular groups at both festivals bore nostalgic. New Orleans-styled names. The winning band at Berlin was called "Papa Kos Jazzin' Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care...