Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: Guilt without a cry
Aleksandar Tišma was and remains the only Serbian writer who wrote about what artists usually run away from, being afraid to expose their intimacy, or rather their strategies. Guilt without a cry is not so much a linguistic composition as a worn-out linguistic thing. It is undisputed, high-cultural realism, which is the most philosophically consistent in Serbia.
One gets the impression that the inner purpose of this prose is precisely the nakedness, but not clinical or pathological, but erotically orderly, which means incomplete. It's like a slightly unbuttoned robe, with feet on high heels. It is the effort of the body to be up to the challenge of beauty, not physiology.
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