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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.

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Interview: Miljenko Jergović

The writer does not know the answers to the questions he asks

"I write because I have to, and it would be difficult to talk about the nature of that need here. It's just that it's a big topic, which, on the other hand, cannot be discussed from the perspective of an idle professor and a theoretically grounded literary scholar. This is something that can only be discussed from the perspective of the writer, dealing with his own case. Writing novels, inventing worlds, imagining, all these are the consequences of some inner imperfection and insufficiency. In writing, I'm actually doing what I used to do when I was playing with myself under the table, listening to what others were saying along the way."

Ivan Milenkovic

Testimonies

Supica for the killer

Gita Serenyi: Going into the dark. From mercy killing to mass murder translated by Nataša Kampmark Partizanska knjiga, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, 2023.

Ivan Milenkovic

Reportage: From the festival, without the festival

In search of lost Skopje

About fifty meters away, along the street that leads to the ruins of the old railway station where the clock stopped at the moment of the earthquake, an innocent walker stumbles upon the walls of an unfinished church, and at every step he meets senseless metal figures - a bull, for example, an imitation of the bull from Wall Street, or a woman with huge breasts that almost fall out of her dress, or a single, golden lion on a massive white pillar in front of the ornate facade of some state institutions, as if it had escaped from the Serbian villages

Ivan Milenkovic

Comment

May Day: What is left of the holiday of freedom?

Religious holidays celebrate the lord, which is terrifying in itself. National holidays celebrate myths of togetherness, which is no less hopeless. Only on the First of May is work celebrated as a condition of freedom, so a free citizen is celebrated who does not submit to masters, nor bow down to idols of the nation. That is why this holiday is systematically made meaningless in modern populist regimes

Ivan Milenkovic

Interview: Namik Kabil, writer

I let myself down the cliffs of my own obsessions

"Guided by the starting point that a writer should tell what he knows, I started from the family's decision to demolish the house in Trebinje that used to be a home and build a new building on that site. That was the core of the story at the very beginning, but I quickly realized that it was necessary to describe and explain what the core was, what kind of life, city, time, and especially what happened, I mean first of all the war. And I can only rationally order and name these listed here now, while in the very process of writing the book it was more a matter of feelings that I relied on."

Ivan Milenkovic

Comment

Two years of war in Ukraine: Freedom is at stake

By forgetting the Ukrainian war, we also forgot the true stake of this entire story: freedom. Although we all yearn for concrete solutions here and now, and we are more interested in the momentum of the war industry of Europe and Russia than in vain philosophizing about freedom, actually the philosophical loop about freedom is at the very core of our understanding of the war in Ukraine. Without it, we could easily sink into complete oblivion and complete indifference

Ivan Milenkovic

The philosophy of one case

Return to the death of Alexei Navalny

As soon as the Russian oppositionist stepped on the soil of his country, he was illegally and uncivilizationally deprived of his freedom, and then taken to his death under the watchful all-seeing eye of Putin. Taken away. He didn't go alone

Ivan Milenkovic

Comment

Alexey Navalny's death: What were ideals?

Even if Putin had not killed him, even if he had survived the Siberian imprisonment, Navalny's conscious decision to return to Krvnik's feet would have been one of the greatest political gestures in the modern history of Europe, equal to the behavior of Giordano Bruno before the Inquisition, or Jan Palah before the dark Putin predecessors

Ivan Milenkovic

Interview on the occasion of Ivan Ivanji's 95th birthday

I tell myself bedtime stories

"I like to talk to myself. I write most fruitfully before sleep, when I'm tossing and turning in bed. In the morning, when I wake up, I just write down what I wrote in my head the night before. Honestly, sometimes I'm surprised when I see what all came out from under the pen. The characters break free during the night and go their own way, about which I know nothing."

Ivan Milenkovic

Interview: John K. Cox, historian and translator

History is not a bulwark to encircle a culture

"I think that what happened in Serbia - and what did not happen - after 1999 is actually a reflection of trends that you can see in other societies that are going through transition. Perhaps the stagnation in Serbia is more painful partly because the moral legacy of the wars of the XNUMXs has not been 'processed', and also because there are still difficulties in terms of development and stability in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo."

Ivan Milenkovic