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WRITINGS FROM AN UNBOUND EUROPE The Fortress is one of the most significant and fascinating novels to come out of the for- mer Yugoslavia. Profound in its understanding and re-creation of Bosnian history and the cultural undercurrents of its narrative and psychological self-reflection, Meša Selimovic's novel is also an exploration of the universal forces of human nature, morality, and society. Ahmet Shabo, the narrator of the novel, returns home to eighteenth-century Sarajevo from the war in R...Vis mer