Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: Diary 1942-2001 I.
Sixty years of keeping Tišma's diary is a fight against deceiving himself and others. I do not know of any diary in which the writer, without sparing himself, turned his insides and revealed his own misery and misery in such a way. He didn't do it out of a mere desire to shock and show himself in the role of a negative hero, which can be seductive. It often happens that writers in their diary entries admit mistakes, insults they have inflicted on others, to reveal their own lust and erotic tendencies, however, I don't remember that somewhere I have come across a recognition of such a common human trait as envy, or a weakness to resist greed and selfishness, to appear ridiculous and powerless. And that is exactly what Tišma does during six decades of writing a diary, an incorruptible observer of the transience of the world, and of himself in that world.
Tišma has no trace of an attempt to correct his own role in public life, to secure a more favorable position afterwards. At the center of his diary is only a human individual. The entire universe is reduced to the cubature of the skull, where the daily torment of fighting with oneself, with the evil within, with passions and weaknesses takes place.
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