"Fields" at a new beginning

During the seventies and eighties, a magazine from Novi Sad Polja he was one of the most valuable and respected in the "great", i.e. real, Yugoslavia; around him gathered a strong and branched Novi Sad/Vojvodina (neo)avant-garde scene (not only literary) as well as future postmodernists - at that time still artistic Poletarians - but the circle of his collaborators was, of course, much wider, including many of the most important names from Belgrade, Zagreb , Ljubljana etc. The magazine abounded in translations of the then most current writers and theorists from the European and overseas scene, many of whom had their South Slavic "original production" right on its pages. That's right Polja was one of the most consistent promoters duha (post)modernity in one still, it turned out, "epic" environment - whose we will like barbarogenic the essence of the beginning of the nineties is to bring down the law on their heads - from which their subsequent fate somehow naturally follows: at the beginning of the Great Regression Polja have stopped dating naturally having died as, of course, a "relic" of a "luxurious" time. It was only at the end of the nineties that the first serious attempts were made to revive the magazine, but its previous editors did not go very far in this regard.

These days, the first, very promising number of the new series finally appeared Polja (very nicely designed), with a new editorial staff (chief editor Laslo Blašković), format and concept, published by the Cultural Center of Novi Sad. The number opens the topic Country stories, dedicated, variously, to Joyce, Eliot, Pound and Bell; in the rubric Voices there are "snippets" from current literary production, of which a passage from the new novel by Milica Mićić Dimovska, which takes place in the recognizable milieu of contemporary Novi Sad, and the new prose of Zoran Magicno Ćirić should be recommended for special attention. live from Nišvila… Lice is dedicated to the portrait of Jovica Aćin, while the essay block Illuminations brings a treat of the number - six texts by Aleksandar Genis, as well as texts by Gojko Božović on Jovan Hristić and Vladislava Gordić on the prose of Antoni Isaković and Mileta Prodanović. This issue concludes with a column -Polis which, one would say, will be intended for analytical questioning of society.

Polja are, therefore, returning in a dignified way, already announcing an issue dedicated to Alexander Tishma for the spring. Perhaps it was somehow logical that a magazine like this skipped the nineties. Magazines can do that, unlike the people who make them.