Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Is Boris Pignac's Story Organized on the Principle of Contrastition?
I was curious if maybe you could speak to that pivot point in Yugoslavia when when Yugoslavia was disappearing as a country and becoming these different ethno nationalist states. What was happening with writers and with the writing culture at that moment? I mean many of them they didn't propaganda let's say creation nationalism in their work but they were cautious not to be exposed to the critique because they saw at the very beginning what happened. There were rare writers who protested and who gave to all of that some public voice or who emigrated to other countries.
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