Summary
Dušan Kovačević: Once upon a time there was one country and other stories
Declared one of the most important playwrights in the history of Serbian literature, Dušan Kovačević confirmed himself as a writer of all basic literary genres.
The second volume of Dušan Kovačević's Selected Works presents a selection from the writer's non-dramatic genres.
From the novel Once Upon a Time and stories about Serbian divisions to poems in which it is finally revealed who sings there, from political journalism to autobiographical essays in which life, literature and theater are shown in an inextricable relationship, from film portraits of great artists with whom he shared the theater stage, film footage and a unique life of friendship and trials to essays on theater art and a personal "workshop of theater stories".
There are two unifying factors that represent the writer's oeuvre as a whole. One is the story model as the formative basis of all genres by Dusan Kovačević. The second is a distorted, ironic representation of the world.
Realizing itself in different genres, Kovačević's "workshop of theatrical stories" remains open to the experience of immediate reality and the reality of lived experience. That experience then grows into a story as a form of understanding whose key ally is laughter. Sometimes deep and cathartic, sometimes bitter and sobering.
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