Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Rebecca West
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1937
- Setting: Yugoslavia
- Principal Characters: Rebecca West, Henry Andrews, Constantine, Gerda
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing, Politics, History, Sociology
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Politics, Europe or Europeans, Marriage, World War II, 1930’s, War, Assassination, World War I, Anthropology or anthropologists, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Peasantry or peasants, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Debates or debating
- Locales: Yugoslavia
Form and Content
West introduces the major theme of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937 by describing an evening in October, 1934, in a London nursing home, where she is recovering from an operation to remove a tumor. Restless, she tries to amuse herself by listening to music on the radio, switching from program to program until a wrong turn of the knob brings her the announcement that Alexander I, the king of Yugoslavia, has been assassinated in the streets of Marseilles that morning. Ringing for her nurse, she demands a...
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