Something’s Missing: Yugoslav Literature from the Standpoint of Redemption

• In Event: Rethinking Yugoslav Culture IV: What is Yugoslav Literature Today?

Abstract

The task of (critical) thinking, Adorno famously wrote in Minima Moralia, is to grasp its own impossibility for the sake of the possible. Yugoslav literature is and has been exactly that kind of cultural and political project, one that creates the conditions of its own possibility by negating all those historical, social, and cultural forces that have conspired to keep it from view.

Author

• Djordje Popovic, UC Berkeley