Slobodan selenic biography sample

1When we read about Dobrica Ćosić today, we likely get a short bio that tells us that he was “seen as the spiritual father of the Serbian nation,”1 and that he started down the path to nationalism when he “warned in 1968 of dangers connected with Albanian nationalism” at the Fourteenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Serbia.2 But this reduction of Ćosić’s career turn, which did begin in or around 1968, implies that his Fourteenth Plenum speech was a beginning, when in fact it marked the end of one period of his intellectual and political life, a period in which he tried to engage constructively with the party and the state. Instead of being a herald of a nationalist turn, the speech was his final reckoning with changes that had begun earlier; his speech of May 1968 concluded a phase begun with Ćosić’s disappointment with his failure to alter the form of literary organization. This modification to the traditional view of Ćosić’s speech opens the door to a more appropriate reading of it: it was not an example of full-blown nationalist excess, it was an example of reasonable resistance to the structural changes that had begun in Yugoslavia in 1963.

2Ćosić’s first direct examination of the fragmentation of Serbia h

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Slobodan Selenić, Timor Mortis

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1) The narrator is starting to write a book containing all he has learned from Stojan Blagojević over the last three and a half years. 2) It is October 13, 1944 according to the new calendar and October 30 according to the old calendar. The narrator is alone with Blagojević. 3) Gunfire can be heard from Avala as Belgrade hides in basements without electricity, water, food or news, shaking and hoping. An hour ago when the shooting intensified, Blagojević opened his eyes for the last time and looked towards Avala.

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1) The narrator is starting to write a book containing all he has learned from Stojan Blagojević over the last three and a half years. 2) It is October 13, 1944 according to the new calendar and October 30 according to the old calendar. The narrator is alone with Blagojević. 3) Gunfire can be heard from Avala as Belgrade hides in basements without electricity, water, food or news, shaking and hoping. An hour ago when the shooting intensified, Blagojević opened his eyes for the last time and looked towards Av

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