Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the … - Sasa Stanisic

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The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9<br>11 in the ads. He said, it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected, unless of course, it's the Vietnam War.

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Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical.

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A book is not only written - after it's finished it starts writing you, the writer. You become its notebook, its sheet of paper on which it forces you to think and rethink your original ideas, your topics, your research, actually everything.

Notebook, Research, Thinking, Writing, Written

Never too late to learn a language. And the good literature to come with it.

Come, Good, Language, Literature

Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.

Amount, Operations, Political, War, Writing

By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"

Experienced, Games, Happen, Past, Reality, Unfair

It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of catharsis while our own (non-fictional) experiences and stories lead to something banal or completely uninteresting.

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