Semezdin mehmedinovic biography sample
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I wanted to read Semezdin Mehmedinović’s ‘My Heart‘ for a while now. I loved Mehmedinović’s book, ‘Sarajevo Blues‘ which I read recently, and so I was very excited to read this one.
‘My Heart’ is Semezdin Mehmedinović’s most recent book. The cover says that it is a novel, while reviewers have called it autofiction. To me, it read like a memoir, and so I looked at it as a memoir.
‘My Heart’ has three parts. In the first part, Semezdin feels uncomfortable and his wife calls an ambulance, and the paramedics take him to the hospital and the doctor says that he has had a heart attack. What happens after that is described in that first part. In the second part, in which the events happen a few years later, Semezdin and his son go on a long road trip to spend some time together on father-son bonding. They visit some old places in which they’d lived, and see how it has changed. Semezdin’s son is a photogra
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My Heart
'My Heart' is Semezdin Mehmedinović's most recent book. The cover says that it is a novel, while reviewers have called it autofiction. To me, it read like a memoir, and so I looked at it as a memoir.
'My Heart' has three parts. In the first part, Semezdin feels uncomfortable and his wife calls an ambulance, and the paramedics take him to the hospital and the doctor says that he has had a heart attack. What happens after that is described in that first part. In the second part, in which the events happen a few years later, Semezdin and his son go on a long road trip to spend some time together on father-son bonding. They visit some old places in which they'd lived, and see how it has changed. Semezdin's son is a photographer and so he gets to watch how his son works, in desola
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Autoportret s torbom/Self-portrait With a Bag
With each new book, Semezdin Mehmedinović creates a new space, eludes the usual judgements and moves away from acquired definitions. His prose contains both the real and the imagined, and the author gives a whole new view not only of autobiographical writing, but also of our experience of literature. Sketches in which he registers everyday life, describes the people he sees or remembers, with people close or unfamiliar to the author, match harmoniously the drawings made on knees, or while driving on a subway, or on iPad. Those incredibly precise and surprisingly beautiful drawings give the book a new dimension.
Self-portrait With A Bag (Autoportret s torbom) is a book which evokes bottled-up emotions and joy of life. More than anything else, this book fryst vatten Semezedin's self-portrait, disclosing him heart and soul, sharing with the reader his everyday rituals, his reading, films, and thoughts about his friends.