Serbian Classics Press

publishing classic Serbian literature

About the Serbian Classics Press

The Serbian Classics Press is dedicated to publishing classic and contemporary Serbian fiction, poetry, and plays in English translation. As a rule, our editions of Serban poetry are published in bilingual editions.

Recent Releases

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Mansarda

Mansarda concerns a young man known only as "Orpheus" who lives in a garret where he creates various fictional worlds. He loses the woman he really loves, then he gets a woman he really doesn't want, all the while disputing the meaning of the world with his room-mate, Billy Wise Ass. Orpheus experiences an epiphany one night when he reads the register of names in the vestibule of his apartment building. His neighbors' lives are far richer and more real than anything he can invent.

Danilo Kiš, translated by John K. Cox
original publication date: 1962, 112 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-9678893-7-5

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Bad Blood

Classic Serbian psychological novel about a legendary beauty who agrees to an arranged marriage with a semi-retarded twelve-year old-boy from a wealthy family in order to save her own family from bankruptcy.

Borisav Stanković
original publication date: 1911, 246 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-9678893-4-4

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