Barley Patch Central Europe an eager ten-year-old in search

an eager ten-year-old in search of a father

A book in which I shall spit out my

With an undercurrent of sensual excitement

Neven Ušumović [Croatia] Veresˇ

Barley Patch Central Europe an eager ten-year-old in searchBarley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fictionor so he thinksforever. Using the form of an oblique self interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question "Must I write?" and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the