Summary
Ivan Lovrenović: Belonging and Not Belonging
Lovrenović is a writer of essays and novels, a travel writer, an editor, an intellectual, although the most important thing among all of these is what is not stated in the biography: that Lovrenović is the guardian of a culture on the verge of extinction. He tied all his textual and intellectual activity, and thus his life, to two worlds. The first one is Bosnian, the one based on the interweaving of its differences, where this very difference is its differentia specifica. The second is the one worn by the Croats of central Bosnia, an integral part of that overworld. Both attempts are equal in trying to preserve water between the clenched fingers. It is nothing new that cultures decay, that their dying leave room for new ones, as well as that identities, such as this one from Bosnia and Herzegovina, are changed in meaning and that new characteristics and meanings are added to it. And it's good that there is someone like Lovrenović who refuses to believe that. Cultures and identities that managed to survive may be distinguished from others only by the fact that they had more Lovrenović. – Nebojša Lujanović, afterword
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