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Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer: Borderlands of Forgotten Times
...the book you are holding in your hands is not a story about some extremely successful life on the edges of Novi Sad's cultural margins in the 1980s, because there was no success in it. I will immediately conclude: the most boring are those stories that describe success to us; or, to paraphrase Tolstoy: all successful lives resemble each other, and every unsuccessful life is unsuccessful in its own way - which, I would add, gives it charm and (unsuccessful) uniqueness. I am trying to tell something that has rarely been talked about until now: a partial history of a kind of Novi Sad artistic underground from the eighties of the last century. We are not talking about Novi Sad rock-alternative of that time - a lot has already been written about it - but about an alternative to that alternative. This book is at the same time a partial biography of many people, as well as myself, and it is limited in time only to the penultimate decade of the twentieth century - a period that we all neglected then, and which many people fondly remember today. At that time, we thought we were living somewhere in the immediate vicinity of Brueghel's hell, until at the beginning of the next decade, the gates of real hell opened for us - and this is where the story of this book ends.
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