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Μιλόσεβιτς, ένας επιτάφιος
«Οι Σέρβοι πρέπει να αντιμετωπίσουν αυτή τη νέα πραγματικότητα. Και ο μόνος τρόπος να παραδεχτούν την ήττα τους είναι να καταδικάσουν τον Σλόμπονταν Μιλόσεβιτς και την πολιτική του, αλλιώς, αυτή η ηττημένη πολιτική γι' άλλη μια φορά θα γίνει εκείνη που οδηγεί στην ήττα ολόκληρο το σερβικό λαό»
Προερχόμενος από το πουθενά, ο Μιλόσεβιτς ξαναγυρίζει στο τίποτα. Έπαιξε όλους τους ρόλους, τους οποίους του έδωσαν οι άλλοι και τους οποίους η σύζυγός του ζήτησε να παίξει. Του απομένει ο τελευταίος, στη ζωή ή μετά το θάνατο, δεν έχει σημασία: ο ρόλος του εξιλαστήριου θύματος, του ενόχου για όλα και για όλους. Πρέπει να τον παίξει πριν ξεχαστεί. Το καλύτερο για τη χώρα μου και για τον κόσμο θα ήταν να εμφανιστεί ο Μιλόσεβιτς μπροστά στο δικαστήριο της Χάγης ως κατηγορούμενος, να δικαστεί για τα εγκλήματα, τα οποία διέπραξε στην Κροατία και τη Βοσνία, στο Κόσοβο και τη Σερβία. Στην αντίθετη περίπτωση, θα είναι ένα έγκλημα χωρίς τιμωρία, ενθάρρυνση για τους μελλοντικούς εγκληματίες.
Πρόλογος στην ελληνική έκδοση
Ο άνθρωπος χωρίς ιδιότητες
Το παιδί χωρίς γονείς και φίλους
Η μεγαλύτερη κηδεία του κόσμου
Ο πολιτικός που δεν γελάει
«Το Κόσοβο είναι ο ισημερινός του σερβικού πλανήτη»
Η πτώση του τείχους του Βερολίνου και η ανέγερση του τείχους του Βελιγραδίου
Αν δεν ξέρουμε να δουλεύουμε, ξέρουμε να πολεμάμε
Ο μικρός βρόμικος πόλεμος που δεν έγινε
Ο μεγάλος βρόμικος πόλεμος που δε έγινε
Εγκληματικά, ναζιστικά, πληθωριστικά κι άλλα παιχνίδια
Η τριμερής συνάντηση στο Ντέιτον
Ξέσπασε η ειρήνη στα Βαλκάνια
Εκλογές, διαδηλώσεις, εκλογές
Το κράτος εναντίον των τρομοκρατών
Ανάμεσα σε δύο σεισμούς
Ο πόλεμος εναντίον όλου του κόσμου
Όλοι είναι νικητές
Δώδεκα χρόνια μετά τα μεσάνυχτα
Τα παράδοξα της ελευθερίας
«Τα Βαλκάνια είναι το βαρόμετρο της Ευρώπης»
Επίλογος στην ελληνική έκδοση
Προερχόμενος από το πουθενά, ο Μιλόσεβιτς ξαναγυρίζει στο τίποτα. Έπαιξε όλους τους ρόλους, τους οποίους του έδωσαν οι άλλοι και τους οποίους η σύζυγός του ζήτησε να παίξει. Του απομένει ο τελευταίος, στη ζωή ή μετά το θάνατο, δεν έχει σημασία: ο ρόλος του εξιλαστήριου θύματος, του ενόχου για όλα και για όλους. Πρέπει να τον παίξει πριν ξεχαστεί. Το καλύτερο για τη χώρα μου και για τον κόσμο θα ήταν να εμφανιστεί ο Μιλόσεβιτς μπροστά στο δικαστήριο της Χάγης ως κατηγορούμενος, να δικαστεί για τα εγκλήματα, τα οποία διέπραξε στην Κροατία και τη Βοσνία, στο Κόσοβο και τη Σερβία. Στην αντίθετη περίπτωση, θα είναι ένα έγκλημα χωρίς τιμωρία, ενθάρρυνση για τους μελλοντικούς εγκληματίες.
Πρόλογος στην ελληνική έκδοση
Ο άνθρωπος χωρίς ιδιότητες
Το παιδί χωρίς γονείς και φίλους
Η μεγαλύτερη κηδεία του κόσμου
Ο πολιτικός που δεν γελάει
«Το Κόσοβο είναι ο ισημερινός του σερβικού πλανήτη»
Η πτώση του τείχους του Βερολίνου και η ανέγερση του τείχους του Βελιγραδίου
Αν δεν ξέρουμε να δουλεύουμε, ξέρουμε να πολεμάμε
Ο μικρός βρόμικος πόλεμος που δεν έγινε
Ο μεγάλος βρόμικος πόλεμος που δε έγινε
Εγκληματικά, ναζιστικά, πληθωριστικά κι άλλα παιχνίδια
Η τριμερής συνάντηση στο Ντέιτον
Ξέσπασε η ειρήνη στα Βαλκάνια
Εκλογές, διαδηλώσεις, εκλογές
Το κράτος εναντίον των τρομοκρατών
Ανάμεσα σε δύο σεισμούς
Ο πόλεμος εναντίον όλου του κόσμου
Όλοι είναι νικητές
Δώδεκα χρόνια μετά τα μεσάνυχτα
Τα παράδοξα της ελευθερίας
«Τα Βαλκάνια είναι το βαρόμετρο της Ευρώπης»
Επίλογος στην ελληνική έκδοση
460 pages, Paperback
First published September 20, 2000
67 people want to read
About the author
Vidosav Stevanović
62 books8 followersVidosav Stevanović, novelist, story-writer, poet, playwright and publicist. He has signed over thirty literary pieces of art, a political biography of Slobodan Milošević, numerous essays and various pieces of writing. Stevanović used to write for European newspapers such as Le Monde, Liberation, El Pais and Expressen. After having completed primary and secondary education in Kragujevac he went to study in Belgrade in 1961. Initially he studied dental medicine and then literature. But he left quickly the academic world in order to dedicate himself completely to the real literature. I did not consider it as a profession but as a vocation, a skill that replaces religion, politics and real life.
After the publication of his first collection of stories (The scum of death, Prosveta, 1969), Vidosav Stevanović becomes, in the esthetical, intellectual and stylistic sense one of the most important and prominent creatures on the Yugoslav literary scene. At the same time, he wins, in the eyes of the Belgrade gossipers, a reputation of the enfant terrible and the politicians started to persecute the insolent dark-waver. Given that the young writer destroyed the myth about the carefree life in the country of self-management, he was brought in the court trial which lasted six years. He was neither released nor condemned: the trial simply expired. During those six years the young writer lived in isolation from the public.
Vidosav Stevanović is the founder of a new literary movement known as fantastic realism. He was persecuted, denied but at the same time appreciated, adored and occasionally rewarded. In the early eighties Vidosav ruled the famous Belgrade publishing houses BIGZ and Prosveta. In the later eighties and in the beginning of nighttimes, when the communism closing stages were replaced by the nationalism, unlike the majority of Serbian writers, Vidosav Stevanović refused to join Milosevic and his program. Gathering a small group of supporters, he founded Independent Yugoslav Writers (1989), Liberal Forum (1990) and The Belgrade Circle (1991). He was soon forced to leave Serbia, to run away via Greece and find exile in France. While being a constant target of Belgrade propaganda in Serbia under Milošević’s regime – his works nowhere to be found, either one looked for them in bookstores, libraries or school curricula – he was becoming a popular writer in France. His books have been reprinted and translated, and the fact that he was given a knighthood medal in the order of arts and literature (Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres) accounts for the popularity of his literary work. Vidosav interrupted his exile in France for a few months to work as a director of the Radio-Television Kragujevac, conquered during the massive demonstrations in Serbian cities in 1996 and 1997. In 2004 he left France and moved to Sarajevo, where he worked as culture adviser in the town governorship. Since 2007. Vidosav Stevanović has been living and working in his house in the village of Botunje, near Kragujevac . The City of Kragujevac and Koraci Press are publishing his Complete Works in 15 volumes, thus ending the tradition of censorship that was in force for over twenty years. Last year. together with a group of his readers and students of his creative writing school, he opened the Club Vidosav, an association of citizens which aim is to promote various media activities (organizing literary evenings, exhibitions, concerts, book promotions, creative writing school and musical school).
After the publication of his first collection of stories (The scum of death, Prosveta, 1969), Vidosav Stevanović becomes, in the esthetical, intellectual and stylistic sense one of the most important and prominent creatures on the Yugoslav literary scene. At the same time, he wins, in the eyes of the Belgrade gossipers, a reputation of the enfant terrible and the politicians started to persecute the insolent dark-waver. Given that the young writer destroyed the myth about the carefree life in the country of self-management, he was brought in the court trial which lasted six years. He was neither released nor condemned: the trial simply expired. During those six years the young writer lived in isolation from the public.
Vidosav Stevanović is the founder of a new literary movement known as fantastic realism. He was persecuted, denied but at the same time appreciated, adored and occasionally rewarded. In the early eighties Vidosav ruled the famous Belgrade publishing houses BIGZ and Prosveta. In the later eighties and in the beginning of nighttimes, when the communism closing stages were replaced by the nationalism, unlike the majority of Serbian writers, Vidosav Stevanović refused to join Milosevic and his program. Gathering a small group of supporters, he founded Independent Yugoslav Writers (1989), Liberal Forum (1990) and The Belgrade Circle (1991). He was soon forced to leave Serbia, to run away via Greece and find exile in France. While being a constant target of Belgrade propaganda in Serbia under Milošević’s regime – his works nowhere to be found, either one looked for them in bookstores, libraries or school curricula – he was becoming a popular writer in France. His books have been reprinted and translated, and the fact that he was given a knighthood medal in the order of arts and literature (Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres) accounts for the popularity of his literary work. Vidosav interrupted his exile in France for a few months to work as a director of the Radio-Television Kragujevac, conquered during the massive demonstrations in Serbian cities in 1996 and 1997. In 2004 he left France and moved to Sarajevo, where he worked as culture adviser in the town governorship. Since 2007. Vidosav Stevanović has been living and working in his house in the village of Botunje, near Kragujevac . The City of Kragujevac and Koraci Press are publishing his Complete Works in 15 volumes, thus ending the tradition of censorship that was in force for over twenty years. Last year. together with a group of his readers and students of his creative writing school, he opened the Club Vidosav, an association of citizens which aim is to promote various media activities (organizing literary evenings, exhibitions, concerts, book promotions, creative writing school and musical school).
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April 1, 2008
THis was a great book to understand who milosevic was and how he did what he did to the Serbs. I really enjoyed it and I think I will later come back to it when I have more time. He really knew what he was doing, and he included crazy details about his family. His son had crashed his 27th German power car when his dad finally laid down the law. It was fascinating, but at times it got a bit too thick. It helped a lot in my paper.
February 9, 2016
Great biography, one of those you read biting your fingers for what's next.
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