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Ivan Milenkovic

Ivan Milenković (1965), philosopher by education, translator by vocation, critic by temperament. He deals with political and contemporary French philosophy. Published three books, more than 40 scientific papers and translated ten books from the French language. Member of the NIN jury from 2018 to 2021. He has been writing for Vreme for a quarter of a century.

Books

Ill-mannered, vile, genius brat

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Selected letters N. R. F.-u (1931–1961), translated by Bojan Savić Ostojić; Zepter, Belgrade, 2024.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Steering, translated by Gordan Breberin; LOM/Laguna, Belgrade, 2024.

Internal reporting: Vienna

Black coffee, brown coffee

Like any big city, Vienna is made up of strong identities that coincide, pass each other, go in different directions or together, oppose each other. Each of these identities is a mixture of prejudice and reality, each is of impure form

Comment

Solidarity against the pack

Solidarity includes help, cooperation, joint action based on the recognition of a common interest, in this case the survival of bare life, the survival of a community against which an alienated government acting as a pack has turned

Chess

India conquered the chess world

Serbia started as the sixteenth-ranked country in the world, and the men's team, strengthened by two outstanding Russians, almost won the silver medal sensationally, but fifth place, with the same number of points as America, Uzbekistan and fourth China, is actually an extraordinary success.

Literature

Defeats and sometimes bitter victories

SE Hinton: The outsider, translated from English by Brana Radević-Stojiljković;
Ulrich Plenzdorf: Novi laments young V., translated from German by Jelena Kostić Tomović;
Laurie Halls Anderson: Speak up, translated from English by Milan Đurić; Laguna, Belgrade, 2024.

Bicycling

Primož Roglič, like a jumping beast

Just a few meters before the finish line of the Tour of Spain, Lennart van Etwert enters the right corner on the inside (taking a shorter route, therefore) with half a bike ahead of Roglič. However, leaning to the right, he does not see Roglič, who is behind him on the left

Chess

Carlsen as a bulldozer

At the just concluded World Rapid Chess Championship, the Frenchman Alirez Firouja seemed, to put it mildly, powerless in front of the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, who was literally sitting (!) on his chair the entire time and having a lot of fun, while Firouja was sinking deeper and deeper into helplessness and misery.