The evening dedicated to the recently deceased writer and philosopher Radomir Konstantinović will be held on Wednesday at 19 pm in the Karver bookstore.
Playwright Veljko Radović, director Andro Martinović and actress Varja Đukić will talk about the work of the most important Serbian thinker of the 20th century.
Konstantinović was born in 1928 in Subotica. The first published work was a collection of poetry "House without a Roof" (1951), and later he devoted himself to a novel and published a whole series of experimental projects and modern works: "Daj nam danas" (1954), "The Mousetrap" (1956), "Clean and dirty" (1958), "Exit" for which he won the NIN award in 1960 and "Ahasfer or treatise on the beer bottle" (1964). From "Pentagram", a note from a hotel room (1966), he turns to an essay, and already in it the key parts of the cult "Philosophy of Palanka" (1969) can be seen. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH.
Speaking about Serbia in the nineties in one of the rare interviews he gave to the Serbian media, Konstantinović says:
"Let me tell you: the fight against nationalism is a fight against loneliness. Why? Because loneliness is the existential form of totalitarianism, every one, including the nationalist one from the beginning of the nineties". He died in Belgrade on October 27, 2001.
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