Neighbours turned Enemies: Sarajevo Urban War in Zeljko Przulj's novels “Street Brothers” (‘Brac´a po ulici')

Abstract

The collection of novels „Street brothers“ (‘Braća po ulici', 1996) by a Sarajevo Serb writer Željko Pržulj, a veteran of the Bosnian war of 1992-1995, contains valuable information about urban warfare as well as about the impact this war has on modern society in Eastern Europe. Employing ‘tragic realism', Pržulj depicted the life in besieged Serbian blocks in Sarajevo, the collapse of multiethnic community along the ethnic lines and civil-military relations.