The writer Svetislav Basara talks about his new novel for "Vreme", in which the late Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is the narrator.
Svetislav Basara says that writing is difficult, painful, and that he does not like to write as far as the technical side of writing is concerned. But for someone who is struggling, after great novels and awards, he is astonishingly productive.
He just finished the manuscript of a new novel that should be called "Đinđić: memoirs from beyond the grave". In a private correspondence with the "Vremena" journalist, he stated that by writing the novel he almost "drove himself into a madhouse".
"And I went a little overboard there. Writing." Memoirs I was neither closer nor further from a madhouse than usual," says Basara in an interview for the new issue of Vremena, which is on newsstands from Thursday (July 31).
In the name of a man of good intentions
What is new about this novel is that the narrator is not Basara's well-known alter ego Kaloperović, but the late Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić himself.
"It is not pleasant to speak in the name of a dead man. Of course, that discomfort did not prevent me from writing everything I had set out to write - that is, as much as I managed - and pouring tons of shit in Djinđić's name to all those who - actively or passively - wove a deadly web around that man of good intentions," says Basara.
"Many luminaries of the then and now civic-democratic bazaar will be quite surprised when they see that they are also abundantly sprinkled with shit," he adds.
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