Summary
Velibor Čolić: Emigrantska mantra
"Emigrantska mantra is a book that comes after everything, as a sum of minuses and pluses, mostly to the detriment of pluses. Written as a kind of post scriptum to Čolić's first book, Madrid, Granada or any other city, it evokes places and spaces, calls up memories and feelings, bridges the deep chasm between full-blooded, youthful joy and the nastiness that befell our individual lives as well as the collective sensibility of shared, unlimited real and projected territories, identification playlists and the most widely affected artistic background. Everything that the mindlessness of the early nineties of the last century mercilessly destroyed and annulled, with the clear idea that the famous wheel of history can only be turned back by force. After all the defeats, individual as well as "collective", whatever we mean by the collective, the ruthlessness of violence ensured a single victory: it imposed an identity pattern from the roar of history and drove into oblivion one of the most senseless sentences about "history as a teacher of life", which has failed to teach the human creature anything. If we do not take meanness, greed, corruption, violence, the bloodthirsty destruction of another creature of the same species for some national, racial, religious or ideological reason as being declared different, worthless, a target or prey. Čolić's book talks about all this, eruptively, almost in a breath, as a mantra of disappointment and defeat that befell us as a generation, as dozens of generations, and thus marks our fin de siecle as a tragic end of a new century, even a brighter beginning of a new century. (BČ)"
The book is underlined.
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