A writer Darko Cvijetić said that even today we live in a permanent evil in the region and that the great problem of the former region is the untouched and untold past which, if we leave it untouched, will be waiting for us somewhere. This year's winner of the award said this at the promotion of the book "Too Much for Me. Eight Girls" in Bijelo Polje, at the Sijarić Literary Days. As the professor of literature said Dijana Hadžizukic, who conducted a conversation with the writer, after the books "Schindler's Elevator" and "What Are You Sleeping on the Floor". "With the novel 'Too Much for Me. Eight Girls', Darko Cvijetić rounds off the trilogy dedicated to Prijedor and its victims, and the focus is on a broader story about a community that has never faced its responsibility. In the novel, a war criminal returns from The Hague to his hometown after serving a sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, instead of being sentenced, he is welcomed as a hero. I believe that Filip Latinović's return, in a conceptual sense, represents a search for a balance of injustice by correcting the position in which the criminal and his victims found themselves," said Hadžizukić. Cvijetić emphasized that in the novel he tried to examine the degrees of goodness and concluded that man himself decides whether he will be better and how much he will make the world better. Answering the question of where Hadžizukić got the character Dostoyevsky Raskolnikov in the novel and why his story is intertwined with Latinović, Cvijetić said that even today we live in a permanent madness that has no end, which is difficult to write down and which is difficult to transfer from the unspeakable to the eloquent. “For me, Raskolnikov is the point of unspeakability. That crime that he committed in Dostoevsky’s novel, in fact the novel ends with him going to recover in prison, but there is no sequel, what kind of person will he be when he returns? How changed and what will it mean in society when he returns one day? And if we compare that situation, it doesn’t matter what they are named, I named him Filip Latinović as some Krleža’s proto-hero who comes to the Zagreb train station and, in fact, returns to an environment in which nothing has changed. If we leave the past untouched or unsaid and if we leave it at rest, it will wait for us somewhere. I guess that is the problem of the former country. Because, in fact, the pile of unsaid crimes from the Second World War, perhaps, created a certain amount of future evil. And of course, today’s criminals, when I say that, I mean the criminals from the previous war, will constantly tell you that the main reason is what was done to their people, as if there was a collective. As if there was something we constantly it overrides that 'I', which actually does not exist. No one will go to the grave with me. Not a single collective, not a single 'we', not a single nation," said the laureate, emphasizing that there is no "we" that can protect us because "the eye of God, the eye of destiny, sees everything around us."
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