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Japanese Slavic and East European Studies Vol. 40. 2020 SPECIAL CLUSTER ON JSSEES
Editor’s note:
Takayuki Yokota-Murakami (editor-in-chief)
It is my immense pleasure to be able to invite to the current issue of JSEES as a guest contributor Prof. Darko Suvin. Prof. Suvin is Professor Emeritus of McGill University, former editor of Literary Research of International Com-parative Literature Association, and author of the classic study Metamorphosis
of Science Fiction as well as of the first hypothesis about “socialist” Yugoslavia Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities. In this issue he will be discussing the
life and works of a great Zagreb writer Predrag Matvejević, followed by a re-view-essay on his book.