Interview: Saša Ilić, writer

No story of resistance is a story of defeat

A characteristic of each of the narrative streams is learning about different forms of resistance. That's why I wrote the novel under a working title Resistance, although I knew I wouldn't publish it under that title. Over time, I realized that there is a common denominator between that working title and the place where the action takes place - the mountain Rtanj, two letters that remind us of the chemical element that the heroes of my novel are fighting for. And that is the "Cape", which, in addition to denoting the protruding free part of the land, is also a symbol for Freedom - a critical mineral that we desperately lack.

Jubilee

The Eternal Danilo Kiš

Danilo Kiš was born 90 years ago today. On this occasion, we are publishing Stanko Cerović's text "Kiš, silueta s one strana... SC" from "Vremen" from February 18, 2015.

In memoriam: Radoslav Petković (1953-2024)

Death and comments

We believed, while the world was collapsing around us, that literature was more important than the abyss in which we would live for decades. And Serbian literature held on through disintegration and war, robbery and self-satirization. She held herself remarkably well

Laws

The criteria for writers to receive royalties is membership

It doesn't matter if the book has ever been borrowed from the library, its author will be compensated based on the author's rate just because he is a member of the OORP. This is one of the illogicalities of the decision that libraries should pay OORP for lending books

Copyright

Reimbursement for publishing books begins, 10 years after the adoption of the law

According to the Copyright Law, which was adopted 10 years ago, from January 1, libraries will pay 15 dinars for each book issued. The money is intended for authors and translators

Literature

Albanian writer Ismail Kadare passed away

Albanian writer Ismail Kadare died on Monday at the age of 88

In memoriam: Goran Petrović (1961-2024)

Goran Petrović - a nobleman

Friends and admirers of Goran Petrović say goodbye to this important and respected writer, irreplaceable in their lives. The poet Miodrag Raičević is one of them

In memoriam

Writer and academician Goran Petrović passed away

He entered the literary scene with the book of short prose "Tips for an easier life" in 1989. His novels and story collections have been published in more than 130 editions, of which 60 editions have been translated into 15 languages.

Interview

Ivan Ivanji: "I like to talk to myself"

Writer, translator, man who went through hell, but says his life was mostly good. Ivan Ivanji speaks for "Vreme" more about the future than about the past

Interview: Srđan Valjarević, writer of lost generations

In the new double issue: I didn't believe we were so bad

"Aggression - especially in language - has become something completely normal. Because when you lie all the time, and we've been lying for thirty years, what else is left for you but to fuck? No one is ashamed of anything anymore. When he says 'my aunt gave me money for an apartment', he is actually saying that he should hurt you and everyone else below him. It exists at all levels, from politics to various other fields. I think that's where all that aggression comes from."

Interview: Srđan Valjarević, writer of lost generations

I didn't believe we were that bad

"Aggression - especially in language - has become something completely normal. Because when you lie all the time, and we've been lying for thirty years, what else is left for you but to fuck? No one is ashamed of anything anymore. When he says 'my aunt gave me money for an apartment', he is actually saying that he should hurt you and everyone else below him. It exists at all levels, from politics to various other fields. I think that's where all that aggression comes from."

In memoriam

Perhaps this is the beginning of a new barbaric age

The great Milan Kundera did not give interviews to newspapers, unless it was a conversation with a fellow writer, or if there was something in the journalist's biography that interested him personally. Here are some of his sentences about Europe, the Czech Republic that didn't want him, Russia that made the Czech Republic not want him...

In memoriam

The famous Czech writer Milan Kundera has passed away

Kundera received accolades for his style of creating characters that hovered between the reality of everyday life and the world of ideas. His most famous works are the novels "The Unbearable Lightness of Existence", "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting", "Life Is Elsewhere".

Society

Artificial intelligence: Can it replace writers

There are countless examples that with the help of artificial intelligence, images, designs, photos were created that few would think were not real. Are they in the books now?

Interview: Vladimir Arsenijević, writer

Space 1999… Landing 2023

"I am also afraid that the demands formulated at these protests are too cautious. What does it even mean to cancel a reality show on one television? We all have cable and a choice of 500 different channels and each of us can choose not to watch such content. But this is not the case with our history books and textbooks. What about all the things we teach our children about? They have no choice. They have to replicate what is served to them as teaching material and are graded for it. This is where a real and deep brainwashing takes place."

Culture of memory - Laza Lazarević

Medical testimonials of a writer

The little-known original medical records of Dr. Laza K. Lazarevic, with their language, style and significance, make for extraordinary reading and a precious archive. We are transmitting parts of individual works as the great storyteller wrote them down and signed them with his own hand