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Svetislav Basara is one of the major figures of contemporary Serbian literature and is the author of over two dozen novels and short story collections

Telling It Again and Again Portugal while retaining his characteristic formalHow do writers and filmmakers use repetition? While repetition is useful when accenting an idea, in this original and thought provoking book, Bruce F. Kawin argues it serves a more important function as a manipulator of our sense of time and the timeless. Brilliantly juxtaposing the aesthetics of novelty against those of repetition, Kawin shows how the connections and rhythm of repetition offer revelations about literature and film, nature and memory,