The best books on trauma. 2024. Jasna Koteska on Shepherd.com
Why am I passionate about this?
I was 14 years old when my dad was imprisoned by the communist police of ex-Yugoslavia. My dad spent his childhood working as a shepherd in a small Macedonian village with 11 inhabitants. Later, he became a poet, and he belonged to the last group of political prisoners in the former Yugoslavia. When my dad was sent to prison, my family and I dealt with great trauma.
What is my book about?
Communist Intimacy by Jasna Koteska
My book starts with a powerful personal story about the author’s father, a prominent Macedonian poet, Jovan Koteski. He was harassed by the Yugoslav communist regime for over 40 years, and he served two years in prison. He was released by the intervention of the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
It seems ironic at this point, but there have been very few analyses of the nature of the police state in Eastern Europe during the communist era, and none of Yugoslavia. The book offers an inquiry into communism and what people had to endure in a system of control.
The books I picked & why
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soeren Kierkegaard
Studies in Hysteria by Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Time by Eva Hoffman
Here is my profile and the explanation about the books I picked on Shepherd.com
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