Conversation with authors Drago Glamuzina (Croatia) and Branko Rosić (Serbia)
The regional literature of the Balkans is more than a collection of national literatures. Apart from the fact that today it is spread over almost a dozen (conditionally small) states, it existed in different periods within the framework of several (and not so small) alliances. Because of this, it exhibits unique specificities, simultaneously reflecting various poetics and traditions, while also revealing connections of similarities and communication. Due its atypical nature, regional literature can represent an attractive literary "package" for the rest of Europe and the world. After a longer period of distance, a period of approach is now being heard. But is it time for a joint performance?
The writer and editor in one of the largest publishing houses in Croatia ("VBZ"), Drago Glamuzina, and Branko Rosić, the writer and journalist who publishes in the largest publishing house in Serbia ("Laguna") will discuss these topics, as well as many issues related to their personal creativity.
In his books, Rosić is strongly interested in our milieu, and in his works directly point out all the anomalies of today's Balkan societies in the "most important" segments - politics, show business, journalism, marketing, art. Drago Glamuzina, on the other hand, is an author who has marked Croatian literature in the last twenty years, both with his poetry and his prose, as evidenced by the series of awards in the author's "regal". Through his often "Carveresque" aesthetic of disciplined and passionate storytelling, he deals with hidden inner worlds that erupt in the ecstasy of shocking and painful revelation. Do these powerful authorial approaches have a common focal point?
The event will be moderated by Aleksandar Madjarovski and Ivan Šopov.
