Late in his illuminating and useful examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Benjamin Ware quotes Wittgenstein’s assessment of the Viennese house the philosopher designed and built for his sister in 1940, by many lights a modernist masterpiece that Wittgenstein himself deems “the product of a decidedly sensitive ear and good manners, an expression of great understanding […]
Kafka’s Dimension of Critique. The authors in the text emphasize the critical dimensions of Kafka’s oeuvre, directing attention to the deconstruction of bourgeois subjectivity, the structure of institutions of the modern state, the questioning of modern distinctions between private and public space, work and free time, and other socio-political phenomena. In line with more complex […]
“A Serbian Film” by Srđan Spasojević: An Analysis of Transgression and Postmodern Ethics. Toward Understanding the Film as a Mirror of the Collective Unconscious. “People don’t want the truth. They want something they can’t look away from.” Vukmir • Why return to analyzing A Serbian Film sixteen years after its release? Precisely because time has […]
The Polish-French filmmaker Roman Polanski (Paris, 1933), a highly controversial figure privately—having been a fugitive from U.S. justice for nearly half a century due to the rape of a minor, and a person whose name is linked to several other potential cases of sexual violence—is among the most talented film creators of the second half […]
Thomas Mann – Death in Venice: The Path to the Abyss. “Death in Venice” is not merely a novella about decadence and longing, but a profound philosophical study of the conflict between Apollonian moderation and Dionysian chaos. Through the fate of Gustav von Aschenbach, Mann explores the boundaries of artistic creation, the nature of beauty, […]
Crnjanski’s A Novel of London. My desire to read this novel was sparked after a friend, Velibor Petković, cited it as one of the ten most significant novels in our language. I realized I hadn’t read Crnjanski in a long time; I barely remembered Migrations, and from The Journal of Čarnojević, I mainly recalled the […]
I Birth as an act represents the beginning of the tragedy of the individual (the person), the dawn of his suffering in a closed metaphorical, yet realistically palpable circle of the absurdity of everyday life, on the axis of the meaninglessness of existence. It is – as a beginning – consequently caused either by mere […]
Viktor Lazić befriended pirates, crossed thousands of kilometers in a Lada Niva, and spent 15 years traveling. His literary works are not the fruit of imagination but the result of real adventures that erase all boundaries between the real and the literary world. Viktor Lazić is a travel writer, an untiring traveler, and an explorer […]