Svetislav Basara
Svetislav Basara | |
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Светислав Басара | |
FPR Yugoslavia | |
Education | Užice Gymnasium |
Alma mater | University of Belgrade (no degree) |
Occupation | Writer |
Political party | DS |
Relatives | Branislav Crnčević (father-in-law) |
Svetislav Basara (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав Басара; born 21 December 1953) is a Serbian writer and columnist.
Biography
Basara grew up in
Basara was the ambassador of
On 28 December 2019, the Montenegrin President Milo Đukanović signed a new freedom of religion act, which caused unrest in Montenegro and provoked some political reaction from Serbia. An official response is an Appeal for condemning the threat to peace in Montenegro, signed by more than eighty prominent personalities of former Yugoslavia including Basara; it says, among other things, that several European institutions and governments of democratic countries are condemning the new attempt to destabilize Montenegro on the principles of Slobodan Milošević's policies. Political, ecclesiastical and media campaigns of misinformation from Belgrade, which is being implemented in both Podgorica and Banja Luka, have seriously threatened peace not only in Montenegro, but throughout the region. Monuments of such policy are genocide, ethnic cleansing, war and crimes against humanity committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.[8][9]
The writer is also signatory of the
Dobrila Basara, his mother, grew up as an orphan under the care of Svetislav Veizović and his family, who was arrested, charged and shot by
He once said in an interview: It’s the same with people as with money, the more of something there is, the less valuable it is. Hyperinflation of humanity. Fatigue. The crisis of meaning…. nothing exists except for selling and buying.[13]
When there is talk of
theories, I always think of Baudrillard’s definition that - I paraphrase - theory might be a trap, in which the reality should blunder in. Reality too often blunders in these apparently naive traps, to its own and our chagrin. I think that farce, exaggeration and non earnestness are the very best tools for writing about the so-called „serious things“. I also have a citation ready for this assertion. In the 1950s, an Italian actor and comedian, who felt strongly connected to religion, wrote a letter to Padre Pio, the famous mystic and stigmatist. He complained in it that he was unable to devote to the spirit, because he had to go on stage with makeup each evening and make a fool of himself. Padre Pio gave him following answer: „My son, these scruples are groundless. We all make morons of ourselves in the places that providence has determined for us.“ Great misfortune happens when a human being takes itself and the world in which it lives too seriously. Svetislav Basara, June 2014[14]
Works
- Serbian editions
- Priče u nestajanju (1982)
- Peking by Night (1985)
- Kinesko pismo (Chinese Letter, 1985)
- Napuklo ogledalo (1986)
- Na ivici (1987)
- Fama o biciklistima (The Cyclist Conspiracy, 1987)
- Fenomeni (1989)
- Na Gralovom tragu (In Search of the Grail, 1990)
- Mongolski bedeker (Mongolian Travel Guide, 1992)
- Tamna strana meseca (1992)
- Izabrane priče (1994)
- De bello civili (1993)
- Drvo istorije (1995)
- Ukleta zemlja (1995)
- Virtualna kabala (1996)
- Looney Tunes (1997)
- Sveta mast (1998)
- Vučji brlog (1998)
- Ideologija heliocentrizma (1999)
- Mašine iluzija (2000)
- Kratkodnevnica (2000)
- Džon B. Malkovič (2001)
- Bumerang (2001)
- Oksimoron (2001)
- Srce Zemlje (2004)
- Fantomski bol (2005)
- Uspon i pad Parkinsonove bolesti, (2006)
- Izgubljen u samoposluzi (2008)
- Majmunopisanije (2008)
- Dnevnik Marte Koen (2008)
- Nova Stradija (2009)
- Fundamentalizam debiliteta (2009)
- Na gralovom tragu (2010)
- Eros, giros i Tanatos (2010)
- Početak bune protiv dahija (2010)
- Tajna istorija Bajine Bašte (2010)
- Mein Kampf (2011; allusion to Mein Kampf)[15]
- Dugovečnost (2012)
- Gnusoba (2013)
- Tušta i tma (2014), with Miljenko Jergović
- Yugonostalghia (2015)
- Anđeo atentata (2015)
- Drugi krug (2015), with Miljenko Jergović
- Očaj od nane (2016)
- Andrićeva lestvica užasa (2016)
- Pušači crvenog bana (2017)
- Nova srpska trilogija (2017)
- Atlas pseudomitologije (2018)
- Bajakovo-Batrovci, with Miljenko Jergović, (2020)
- Kontraendorfin (2020)[16]
- English editions
- The Prince of Fire: Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories, contains A Letter From Hell by Basara, ISBN 978-0-8229-4058-6.
- Chinese Letter,
- The Cyclist Conspiracy,
- Fata Morgana : a compendium of short fiction, Dalkey Archive Press, Victoria 2015,ISBN 978-1-62897-113-2.
- In Search of the Grail, Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 978-1-94315-019-9.[23]
- The Mongolian Travel Guide, Dalkey Archive Press,
Awards (selection)
- NIN Award (2006), for Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease
- first-person narrator)
- Isidora Sekulić Award (2015), for Angel of Assassination
- NIN Award (2020), for Kontraendorfin
References
- ^ Biography in: Ko je ko u Srbiji '96: leksikon, Bibliofon, Belgrade 1996 at WBIS, retrieved on 2018-11-09.
- ^ English biography, Festival Étonnants-Voyageurs Saint-Malo, retrieved 2018-11-19.
- ^ Production data Boomerang, Film Center Serbia, retrieved 2018-11-10.
- ^ Basara's guest appearance in Munje!, YouTube, retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ Randall Major, University of Novi Sad (Wayback Machine), retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ Ličnost Danas: Svetislav Basara (Personality Today: Svetislav Basara), Danas, retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Serbian Far Right Leader Acquitted For Publishing ‘Traitor’ List, Balkan Insight, retrieved 2019-11-16.
- ^ Đukanović potpisao Zakon o slobodi vjeroispovijesti, Radio Slobodna Evropa, retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ^ Bura zbog Zakona o slobodi veroispovesti - incidenti u skupštinama Srbije i Crne Gore, BBC, retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ^ Jezici i nacionalizmi, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
- ^ Rehabilitovani Basarini preci (Rehabilitation of Basara's Ancestors), Blic, retrieved 2018-11-10.
- ^ About Vida Crnčević Basara, Dereta, retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ Structuring Madness: Notes Toward An Understanding of Basara, Douglas Glover's Numéro Cinq, retrieved 2019-11-27.
- ^ Vor dem Lesen sollte man eine Packung Marlboro rauchen, Textfeld Suedost, retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ^ English review, Eurozine, retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^ "Kontraendorfin - Svetislav Basara | Laguna". www.laguna.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 2021-01-25.
- ^ Discussion of Novel Chinese Letter
- ^ Chinese Letter, Kirkus Reviews, retrieved 2018-11-19.
- ^ Review, London Review of Books, retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ^ Review, Chicago Review No. 51:03/2005, retrieved 2020-01-03.
- ^ Review, World Literature Today, retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Review, Publishers Weekly, retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Review, Complete Review, retrieved 2018-11-10.
- ^ Review, Complete Review, retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ Review, MMU's Magazine aAh!, retrieved 2019-11-17.