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It is generally deemed to be West’s magnum opus and her bestand best-knownwork.

Shownotes/transcript: RememberingYugoslavia. dc.title: Black Lamb And Grey Falcon Vol-i. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslaviacame out in 1941.

New episodes two to three times per month. Created, produced, and hosted by Peter Korchnak. The Remembering Yugoslavia podcast explores the memory of a country that no longer exists. Third Printing, June 1942, published same year as first (February). A brilliant and versatile novelist, critic, essayist, and political commentator, Wests greatest literary achievement is perhaps her travel diary, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey. Featuring music by Gogofski, Paniks, and Undescore Orkestra.

With Helen Atkinson (Rebecca West's great-niece), Angela Carlton, and James Thomas Snyder. What’s the big deal about this big book? Who was Rebecca West? And what makes the book relevant a lifetime later?

The book, which documents West’s travels through Yugoslavia in the second half of the 1930s, has been described as “astonishing,” “brilliant,” “remarkable,” “a supreme literary monument,” and “one of the most important books written about Europe in the last century.” It’s also been derided as biased, fictional, and factually flawed. Eighty years since its publication, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia remains the most authoritative (and longest) book of travel writing on that former country.