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16.01.2013.

CRITICIZE THIS! AWARD EVENT

Nagrada za najbolje mlade kritičare umetnosti prvi put će biti dodeljena u regionu 19. januara u klubu Booksa u Zagrebu, u završnici regionalnog projekta “Criticize This!”

Uz dodelu nagrada, biće predstavljena i pdf publikacija sa najboljim esejima mladih kritičara, a učesnicima i mentorima pridružiće se i beogradska umetnička grupa škart koja u Zagrebu ima brojnu i odanu publiku.

20.12.2011.

FORCING THE ABSURD

David Albahari: The Checkpoint (Stubovi kulture, Belgrade, 2011)

By:  Ivan Telebar

In his latest novel, The Checkpoint, David Albahari decided on a war topic set in an unusual and at the same time, purposeless story of the pointlessness of dying on the battlefield. In his attempt to shock, the author managed to achieve exactly the opposite. The one thing that will astonish the reader is the blurriness of the storytelling discourse with gaps that dominate the obvious plot and the hypothetical point of the text. The war is set as an unconditional situation, but the absurd that the author wanted to create poisoned his writing and left us with a bitter aftertaste.

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20.12.2011.

THE GLOOMINESS OF AN OLD MAN

Srđan Srdić: Espirando (Stubovi kulture, Beograd, 2011.)

By: Leda Sutlović

A relatively unknown writer to the wider Croatian reading public, Srđan Srdić, is the author of the appraised novel The Dead Field and the director of the Festival of Short Stories ‘’The Kikinda Short’’, and the novel Espirando, subtitled ‘’The Songs on Death’’, is his first book of stories. The title of the book, easily translated as breathing or exiling, gives an idea of the main topic, the moment of death. The title is also a term from classical music that describes a special way of interpretation, and the music itself, especially the one on the Mexican border, which helps us understand this mess, is one of the basics and sources of inspiration for the stories.

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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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