A vivid, contemporary travelogue by Fred A. Reed. From Bosnian actuality to Macedonian potentiality, Reed’s travels in this region lead him to encounter a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony: ethno-racialist aspirations remain the only coin in which peoples feel they can express their belonging, their social solidarity – the only credible alternative to the blight of free market globalism.
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Fred A. Reed. Salonica Terminus
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
CHAPTER 1. CITY OF SHADOWS
CHAPTER 2. SAINTS AND ZEALOTS
CHAPTER 3. TO THE SALONICA STATION
CHAPTER 4. A DIVORCE IN ALBANIA
CHAPTER 5. THE KOSOVA FLYER
CHAPTER 6. THE BALKAN QUAGMIRE
CHAPTER 7. THE SEARCH FOR MACEDONIA
REFERENCES. Foreword
Chapter 1: City of Shadows
Chapter 2: Saints and Zealots
Chapter 3: To the Salonica Station
Chapter 4: A Divorce in Albania
Chapter 5: The Kosova Flyer
Chapter 6: The Balkan Quagmire
Chapter 7: The Search for Macedonia
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SALONICA TERMINUS
Travels into the Balkan Nightmare
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Professor Papadopoulos’ formula is both reassuring and troubling. The theoretical principal may be, from the theological point of view, unassailable. But when we come to an examination of cases, it is not always clear what exactly is the spirit preserved in the work and how it is apprehended by the faithful who look upon it. In the icon I have in mind, the one which best embodies the faith of the Salonicians, their protector Saint Demetrius, astride his rearing stallion, plunges a lance into the thorax of a bearded man who twists on the ground, teeth gnashing in finely drawn and exquisite agony.
Who is the bearded man that he should have so infuriated the saintly martyr? Greeks and Bulgarians both agree: the victim is a Bulgar. What they do not agree upon how he should be named.
