Summary
Branimir Bošnjak: The Purposes of Small Things
The world of the Small and the unambitious love for the Small is the only part of the thematic register that Bošnjak appreciates and honors.
History, in Bošnjak's view, is a spent body written by a victorious hand, crossed out and added to by later interventions, so it can hardly serve as a guardian of the past or a current school tool. The logocentristic system of the world requires a conveniently packaged idea to be supported by date evidence, although both the date and the fact are questionable and uncertain; in the school system, this task is performed routinely, and current satisfaction is found only in the notorious student evaluation. Among other things, the past as recent or distant history is dissolved in this way out of apathy and great weariness of the world; there is no objective spirit in the great fragmentation of the world, it is impossible after all, and it is replaced by the targeted political correctness of an equally questionable radiation. According to the author, there is a separation between man and history. The object of separation does not actually exist, etc.
The world of Small and unambitious love for Small is the only part of the thematic register that Bosniak appreciates and honors (only small things rise to greatness, or how smallness has hope). In the area of Sitno, capital does not find much interest so far, so the necessary instrumentalization has been absent, and this does not guarantee that it will not attack with its tentacles the modest field of the individual's oasis of Maloga. Perhaps this modesty in preference for the world of everyday life is inadvertently caused by the exclusion from the legitimate field of world events, but it is legitimate as love for the non-transferred and so far interesting value of small things. Branimir Bošnjak, a classic of Croatian poetic modernity, agrees with this.
Branko Maleš
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