{"id":130782,"date":"2021-08-26T19:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/science-portal\/aesthetics-laboratory-of-the-faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences\/knjizevni-klub\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:46:00","slug":"literary-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ffos.unios.hr\/en\/science-portal\/aesthetics-laboratory-of-the-faculty-of-humanities-and-social-sciences\/literary-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Literature and philosophy call into question the essence of everything that is, enchant the world and illuminate being as relation. Yet in an age dominated by mass stupidity, when the radiance of logos<\/em> (word and meaning) is fading, we are called upon to reconsider our place and orientation and to decipher the hieroglyphs of a lost humanity. The capacity for thought within us seeks life in a world that has emptied life of all content. We must avoid the comfort of the cushions of apocalyptic thinking, for genuine poiesis<\/em> calls for a specific nomadic practice in which a turn and a different way of living\/thinking become urgent. Literature, meanwhile, is a mode of thought in which elementary questions of existence are constantly raised: What are we actually doing? What is truly our own? What is our cosmos? In this sense, through reading the great works of classical and modern literature, and through conversations, forums, book presentations and other gatherings, the Literary Club will discuss answers and questions that are never stated once and for all, but instead express our self-knowledge through great literature.<\/p>\n

EVENTS<\/h2>\n

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14 October 2025
\nEstLab Forum: <\/strong>Does \u201cPost-Yugoslav Literature\u201d (Still) Exist? \u2013 <\/strong>guest Boris Postnikov<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>What is the \u201cLiterary Republic of Yugoslavia<\/em><\/strong>\u201d? What, then, is the (post-)Yugoslav literary field? And is it even possible to speak freely about the toponym called YUGOSLAVIA?\u2026 at least within the so-called \u201cacademic establishment\u201d?<\/p>\n

An affirmative answer to the final questions in this series shows that \u2013 YES, IT IS! On Tuesday, 14 October, Boris Postnikov was a guest at FFOS.<\/span> Boris Postnikov<\/strong>. The author of the book mentioned in the opening sentence spoke with the participants and audience at the first session of the new season of Osijek\u2019s Aesthetic Laboratory. The main thesis of the publication\u2019s narrative \u2013 also accepted by numerous literary theorists and historians of literature \u2013 is that even after the dissolution of the country once known as the SFRY, a \u201cshared cultural space\u201d continues to exist. It is inhabited<\/em> by writers who do not wish to be confined within any canonical \u201cnational space\u201d. The continuity of \u201cpost-Yugoslav literature\u201d must therefore be taken into account by all future research into literary developments in this region.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the conversation examined the role and position of the most prolific \u201cpost-Yugoslav\u201d writer, Miljenko Jergovi\u0107, as well as the role of Dubravka Ugre\u0161i\u0107 in defining this \u201cliterary field\u201d. The discussion also addressed self-declared \u201cpost-Yugoslav\u201d writers such as Marko Poga\u010dar and, in particular, Ale\u0161 Debeljak. The final conclusion of the discussion was that there can be no dispute about the diversity and vitality of literary\/cultural phenomena that emerged after the dissolution of Yugoslavia. \u201cPost-Yugoslav literature\u201d is an unquestionable fact of a free, universal space beyond national Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian<\/em> and other literatures within the territory of the former state.<\/p>\n

In conversation with the book\u2019s reviewer Igor Gajin<\/strong>, as well as with the author of these lines, the author considered numerous aspects of literature and Yugoslavism<\/em>, a topic that provocatively entered the terrain of exclusivity cultivated by local nationalist \u201ccultural gatekeepers\u201d. In the well-filled Room 39 at FFOS, one thing was confirmed\u2026 YES, it is possible to speak freely about reading and writing<\/em> in the spirit of the Yugoslav cultural tradition.<\/p>\n

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