Aeneas Wounded

by Jeton Neziraj, Blendi Kraja (Translator)

From out of the same limbo, a victim of ethnic cleansing from Kosovo and the hero of an ancient epic reappear in our world.

51 pages, Paperback

Published January 10, 2020

Reviews

[John Freedman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeton Neziraj's "Aeneas Wounded" is a brief, powerful look at war's devastating impact on people, now and for thousands of years. The characters are marvelously off-the-wall: a General who eats maps; a murderous soldier who soothes a young girl with fairy tales; a doctor who heals without knowing it; a wounded hero who has no recollection of how or when he was wounded, and who passes through everyone's life in some way everywhere and at all times, whether under his own name or another. This is one of those incredible plays that can't be summarized because it isn't telling you a story. It's telling you the truth. My kind of writing. Is it magical anti-realism? Blendi Kraja's translation would make you think this was written in English were it not for such characters as Sadri, Milovan, and Abdullah, references to the celebratory days of Eid and Bozic, and a brief passage in Serbian...