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17.12.2011.

WARMING MATERIAL OF A SMALL FORMAT

Miro Gavran: Kafka’s Friend (Mozaik knjiga, Zagreb, 2011)

By: Ivan Telebar

Max Brod sits in a small, stuffy office in Tel Aviv and goes through a new manuscript that came to his home address a few days ago. The sender is unknown, the only thing he can see is the name of the author under which is the title of the manuscript – Miro Gavran Kafka’s Friend. He has heard of this author, the literature circles talk of him as of the most translated Croatian writer and the only alive European dramatist to whom a whole festival has been dedicated to. He cared little for such epithets, he was more concerned about the text in front of him. He has read it several times and now he was just turning the pages and sometimes stopping on a chapter, searching for something more then black ink on a white paper.

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17.12.2011.

ON THE ROAD

The Russian Computer by Semezdin Mehmedinović (Fraktura, Zagreb, 2011)

By: Lamija Neimarlija

“The Russian Computer” by Semezdin Mehmedinović has a timeline from the end of August 1995 until August 1996 and it presents an unintentional diary of moving through Sarajevo – Prague – Zagreb – Phoenix – New York – Phoenix – Washington, DC. In the ‘’Introduction’’, which sets a certain frame for understanding the notes from the diary, where the author explains how this experience of leaving comes as a memory of events that he understood only later on. This story does not integrate reasoning from a (time) distance and consists of notes from periods of moving, without any interventions in the text by the author. Drafts, as starting points for newspaper texts, were made by cutting out the surplus from the manuscript that was a lot longer, because everything he wrote was in the same document (story drafts, songs, letters, magazine texts etc).

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12.11.2011.

First Art Reviews and Supplement no. 1

Criticize This! project, dedicated to afirmation of the significance of contemporary art and importance of its critical observation in the process od development a democratic and open society, presents through the portals of the organizers and in a form of a supplement in newspapers Novosti, Danas and Pobjeda, the first art reviews by young critics produced under the supervision of well experianced and renowed art critics from the region.

Six selected art reviews in the fields of literature and performing and visual arts, will be published as the first edition of supplement in weekly Novosti in Croatia and daily newspapers Danas in Serbia and Pobjeda in Montenegro.

Other 16 art reviews will be published on portals of the organizers of the Criticize This! project – Booksa.hr, Elektrobeton.net, Kulturpunkt.hr, Plima.org i SEEcult.org), as well as on this web site.

Selected art reviews will be published in portal Eurozine.com, too.

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