by Bora Cosic, Mirjana Wittmann, Klaus Wittmann · Suhrkamp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518399224
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«Die Rolle meiner Familie in der Weltrevolution» is the novel by Bora Ćosić, published by Suhrkamp in paperback (117 pages, in German).
Considered a European classic and cult book in Yugoslavia, Bora Ćosić's novel follows a child in 1940s Belgrade. War, fascism and communism burst into the microcosm of a family fallen on hard times, and the narrative shows them with humor and irony that expose the destructive chaos of the communist revolution.
The novel was originally published in 1969 as Uloga moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji and won the NIN Prize. This German edition, published in 2002 and translated from Serbian by Mirjana and Klaus Wittmann, belongs to the Suhrkamp Taschenbuch series (no. 3422).
For readers interested in Serbian and Balkan literature, humor with historical background, and the history of Eastern Europe during the twentieth century.
