Summary
Predrag Lucić: The Escape from Historical Reality I-II
Reading book for repeaters of history in second grades of patriotic, business and trade schools
In the skewed optics of this shifted rehearsal of recent Croatian and global (primarily) political nonsense, numerous events and statements about which the author (but also his colleagues from the Split weekly) spoke and wrote critically and narrowly proclaimed consensuses, they referred to the unquestionability of "state-building" policy, joining NATO or the "new vulgate" of neoliberalism.
In short: after the hymn book Haiku, haiku, jejem ti maiku, Predrag Lucić presented us with another indispensable mental--gymnastic manual for exercising common sense and an upright spine. Or, as George W. Bush once pregnantly formulated it: "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
BORIS POSTNIKOV
Our stupidities and follies proved to be permanent, they petrified before our eyes and turned into some kind of eternity, and Lucić's songs, which sang of that eternity, remained just as fresh even when it seemed to us that we had forgotten their daily political reason. In the end, his mocking poetry will become a parallel lyrical history of independent Croatia and what immediately preceded it.
MILJENKO JERGOVIĆ
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