Friday, July 6, 2007

balkan book burning





Cultural cleansing: the Serbs' destruction of national library holdings in Sarajevo in 1992 recalls (in part) "Actions against the Un-German Spirit", the student-organised book burnings in Nazi Germany of May 1933 which targeted local and foreign "degenerate" literature. Heritage and documents erased; the building is an archive of ruins in need of new materials and history.