Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people … - Sasa Stanisic

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The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Sasa Stanisic

Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually merely a simplified, almost insulting judgment of the book by its cover - or rather by the name and origin of its author - an act of discrimination if we want to say it in a more provoking way, but at the least an act of ignorance and false empathy.

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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.

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

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

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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?"

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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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