Answer to the text "I appreciate you defending public morality", by Predrag Sekulić
Dear Mr. Sekulić, On the occasion of your response to my newspaper review of the novel The Mating of the Swans, I would like to inform you that my little one loves sex. I like to have sex and talk about sex. I'm a sex advocate. I built my literary taste on writers who are obsessed with sex. That is why it is my duty to defend sex, to defend erotica, to defend even the dramaturgy of a porn film against the attacks of your incompetence.
You have learned to change theses in the Assembly, so you will still present yourself to me as a Montenegrin Marquis de Sad, a martyr of emancipation and the sexual revolution that bypassed us. No, uncle party politician, in your novel you have only ineptly depicted the relations between the sexual organs and managed to make your characters make no sense. Your novel is deranged and confused, and if, God forbid, I were in your place, I would also extricate myself from the pain with some kind of right to be lascivious. I understand you. But it's in vain for you, you're a bad writer, maybe you didn't give enough to that calling, so you only remember that one finger in your anus from the entire oeuvre of Henry Miller.
You know, Mr. Sekulić, I didn't decide overnight to nail you to the wall of truth. I changed my mind, objectively suffering from writer's vanity. But then I remembered that an extraordinary Montenegrin poet who swears at the highest aesthetic level, that loser works for a church of 250 euros, while you are crunching thousands from the state budget and still want to teach us how to fight. Of course, I don't separate the personality from the work, you noted well, but I still leave the possibility that you are more interesting in bed than on paper. I recommend that you build on it a brighter view of the future.
Anyway, it's your sufferings that barely touch me because god compensated you with progress in the party. However, I'm not your party friend, I'm not one of those opposition members you joke with in the parliamentary corridors when a miniskirt passes by. Well, when I have already told you all that, then I invite you once again not to change your thesis, because you think the novel is bad, unclear and simple, and the fact that you think that the use of the noun "head" puts you on the same level as Henry Miller, that I forgive. Because if I take that from you, then you will face the fact that you are just another boring MP who once vowed at the Pobjede buffet that he would become a serious writer. And he was grossly mistaken.
Mr. Sekulić, I received your notification with disbelief that your works are being translated. From what I've read, I can't imagine who would waste their time. Every reader whom I brought to you through a newspaper account is our great ally in this, I dare say, constructive discussion. I got the most out of your novel Mating of the Swans, it became a topic that you now want to turn politically and put me in the role of some kind of sexual censor.
Instead of an answer, I refer you to Eko's humorous definition: when a person from point A to point B travels longer than you would like, then it is a porn movie. Of course, Eko makes fun of those cuts between sex scenes in "porn with action". In your novel, the characters travel infinitely slowly and arrive nowhere. Your heroes are dead until they take off their underpants, and when they do, they're funny. That's why it's not pornography either. It's not kitsch either, because kitsch can be sexy. It is simply a dead text that cannot be saved. It has nothing to do with bad words and morals, because there are no bad words and morals in art.
What you offer in prose is an indication of serious ego pressure and a failure that can hardly pass you by even in other fields. You don't know so much what literature is, and you've been in literature for so long that you quite possibly don't have the capacity to analyze yourself and the world around you, which started leaking to you on Twitter, so I decided to react. And I'm not sorry. Draw, Mr. Sekulić, do abs, leave the writing to others. The problem is that hardly anyone in Montenegro can find the strength for such good advice. Both to give and to receive.
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