title: Interview with Dimiter Kenarov--Dec. 29-30, 2014
abstract: Interview Themes -- Part I: Dec. 29, 2014 -- 1:15 Kenarov?s background and how he came to write on Eastern Europe; 6:15 On the American high school in Bulgaria Kenarov attended during the 1990s; 10:40 Memories of 1989 in Bulgaria; 13:45 On the blowing up of the Georgi Dimitrov mausoleum; 19:45 Is a heightened sense of the surreal in politics and everyday life a useful or a demobilizing sensibility?; 24:00 The case of the Serbs and self-irony; 28:30 On the legacy of communism in Bulgaria; 35:05 H
journal: eCommons (Cornell University)