Slav Lit: Search and Destroy

Feel like I should have more ideas but excluding the countries you've already mentioned the only person I can think of for a vehement SEARCH is Milorad Pavić (Serbian).

The list (according to wiki):

Ukrainians
Serbs
Bulgarians
Belarusians
Croats
Slovaks
Bosniaks
Slovenes
Macedonians
Montenegrins

Thanks though, I'll look into Pavić.

In Sergio Pitol's great book The Magician of Vienna, he at one points talks about his discovery of Slav literature and says he could list about two pages worth of authors but he won't and I'm like nooo..

an ok rev of Ivo Andric's last novel:

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/ivo-andric-omer-pasha-latas-marshal-to-the-sultan/

And I was looking at Michael Henry Heim's page on wiki, he might be a good guide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Henry_Heim

Michael Henry Heim translated a ridiculous amount of stuff from a ridiculous number of languages. I wish my brain worked like that.
Plus he looked like James Bond's Jaws with a beard:
http://masontattersall.org/translation/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/heim.gif

http://masontattersall.org/translation/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/heim.gif

A class act all the way!

https://bookriot.com/2018/10/30/slavic-literature/

Poor-ish piece, doesn't build any enthusiasm - there is a theme of a connection to the East and Islam through some of these books. Maybe I could thread something around this.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/06/06/dasa-drndic-dismembered/

The book that I think about the most is The Book of Blam. It’s about the Holocaust in Serbia, but also impunity, identity, cruelty, atrocity, loyalty, guilt. There are so many facets to it. I still get emotional recalling scenes from it. I really can’t recommend it highly enough. pic.twitter.com/V78Jjee0q5

— Steve Holt (@SteveHolt3) January 1, 2020