Summary
Svetislav Basara: Despair from mint: selected and new stories
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"So, those who enjoyed reading my previous books will also read this one, I assume with pleasure, and the others, those whose eyes and ears I prick, will either remain silent or wail and wail because they don't know how to do anything else. They either remain silent or cry." Svetislav Basara Despair of Mint is a book composed of two parts. The first is a selection of the best stories from Basara's storytelling oeuvre, which shows all the features of his postmodern prose: absurdity, mystification, moving the temporal and spatial boundaries of storytelling, playing with literary conventions and writers, real and fictional - in the "Basarian" literary twist of humor and satire. The second part consists of new stories, collected in one place for the first time, including stories about Serbian classics such as "Unknown details about the death of Miloš Crnjanski" and "The Last Days and Death of Ivo Andrić". "Only literature has the ability and freedom to say everything. First, to say again everything that has been said. Then, to somehow bring what has been said to the edge, to look at every center, every apparent balance as a point of abyss, as the collapse of the universe. At the same time, literature is the freedom to say what has not yet been said, in a different way. This freedom is offered to literature by the story in which literature wraps itself in order to preserve itself as our core of freedom." Novica Milić
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