Fortress – Meša Selimović

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in 1982. godine. In 1982, the novel “Tvrđava” by Selimović was set in the Muslim environment of Sarajevo after the Battle of Hoćim in 1621. The main character is Ahmet Šabo, a war veteran who returns to his hometown to find that his family has all died from a “grave illness”. He struggles to find … Read more

About Music

First of all, the interesting thing about his biography is in an inversely proportional relationship with the value of his work. Historians have, true, so meticulously and systematically investigated Bach’s life that today all the circumstances of his manuscripts, dates of his concert performances, trajectories of his movements, the amount of his earnings, his illnesses, … Read more

Francis Bacon – On Enlightenment

Francis Bacon – On Revenge Revenge is a kind of wild justice, and the more human nature strives for it, the more the law needs to eradicate it. Because as far as the first injustice committed is concerned, it only offends the law; but revenge on that injustice renders the law obsolete. Indeed, the one … Read more

Francis Bacon – On Dementia and Anxieties

Francis Bacon – On Fools and Troubles The shepherds of the people ought to be aware of the calendar of state storms; they are usually the greatest when a state of equality arises, just as natural storms are greatest during the equinox. Just as a storm is announced by muffled gusts of wind and the … Read more