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Jorge Kosikov is a Brazilian lawyer and writer of Bulgarian origin. Among the Bulgarians in South America, Jorge Kosikov is known as a missionary of Bulgarian history and culture. Jorge Kosikov is a descendant of two waves of immigration - one from Bessarabia during the Ottoman rule in the late 18th and early 19th century and the other from Bessarabia to South America in the early 20th century. In this book the author explores and describes the Bessarabian Bulgarians and Gagauz colonies in four Brazilian states: ""Aurora"", ""Baliza"", ""Concordia"" (""Buri""), ""Esperanza"", ""Fethiseiro"", ""New Bessarabia"", ""Page"", ""Prata"", ""Setenta"", ""Concordia"" (Parana), ""Terra Rica"", ""Colonia Velha"", ""Lajeado Enrique"", as well as the Uruguayan ""Concordia""

"Hurtling between Weltschmerz and wit, drollness and diatribe, entropy and enchantment, it's the juxtaposition at the heart of Dubravka Ugresic's writings that saw Ruth Franklin dub her "the fantasy cultural studies professor you never had." In Europe in Sepia, Ugresic, ever the flâneur, wanders from the Midwest to Zuccotti Park, the Irish Aran Islands to Jerusalem's Mea Shearim, from the tristesse of Dutch housing estates to the riots of south London, charting everything from the listlessness of Central Europe to the ennui of the Low Countries. One finger on the pulse of an exhausted Europe, another in the wounds of postindustrial America, Ugresic trawls the fallout of political failure and the detritus of popular culture, mining each for revelation. Infused with compassion and melancholic doubt, Europe in Sepia centers on the disappearance of the future, the anxiety that no new utopian visions have emerged from the ruins of communism; that ours is a time of irreducible nostalgia, our surrender to pastism complete. Punctuated by the levity of Ugresic's raucous instinct for the absurd, despair has seldom been so beguiling"

Engl. Zsfassung u.d.T.: Coca-Cola socialism : the americanization of Yugoslav popular culture in the 1960s