The children of Cain: Dobrica Ćosić's Serbia

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 268-287

  Miller, Nick ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034395066     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325400014002003     Document Type: Review

References (67)

1. Dobrica Ćosić, Promene (Novi Sad: Dnevnik, 1992), 22.
2. Ćosić, Promene, 19.
3. Jež, 1510 (Belgrade), 7 June 1968.
4. See Nicholas J. Miller, "The Nonconformists: Dobrica Ćosić and Mića Popović Envision Serbia, "in Slavic Review 58:3 (Fall 1999): 515-36, for an examination of the origins of Ćosić's dissatisfaction.
5. Slavoljub Djukić, Čovek u svom vremenu: Razgovori sa Dobricom Ćosićem. (Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1989), 185-200.
6. Dobrica Ćosić, "Kritika vladajuće ideološke koncepcije u nacionalnoj politici, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće: Članci i ogledi (Ljublana-Zagreb: Cankarjeva založba, 1988), 40.
7. Ćosić was not expelled from the party; he remained a member for several weeks before submitting his resignation.
8. For a clear recent statement of this thesis, from one of Serbia's most influential and responsible historians, see Branko Petranović, Jugoslovensko iskustvo srpske nacionalne integracije (Pirot: Grafika, 1993), 113-14.
9. At this point, it seems almost superfluous to note that there were in 1968 considerable Serbian populations in Croatia and Bosnia.
10. Kosta Čavoški, Tito: Tehnologija vlasti (Belgrade: Dosijc, 1991), 76.
11. Ćosić, "Kritika vladajuće, "33.
12. Ćosić, "O književnosti i mladoj generaciji hiljadu devet stotina šezdeset osme, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće, 46.
13. Ćosić, "Kultura i revolucija, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće, 118.
14. Ćosić, "Tiranija laži, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće, 184.
15. Ćosić, Promene, 20.
16. "'Vreme vlasti' i 'vreme laži, '" in Nezavisna Svetlost 54, 6-12 (October 1996).
17. Edward Said, Representations of the Intellectual (New York: Pantheon 1994), 102.
18. Ibid.
19. Ćosić, "Književnost i istorija danas, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i muguće
20. Ibid., 129.
21. See the interview of Ćosić by Matija Bečković, "Klubu metnika ujutru, "Jež, 1393 (Belgrade), 11 March 1966, 2.
22. Dragoslav Marković, Život i politika: 1967-1978, vol. 2 (Belgrade: RAD, 1987), 260.
23. "Ne sme se proliti nijedna kap krvi, "Naša borba, 24 November 1996.
24. Ćosić, "Književnost i istorija danas, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće, 126.
25. Ibid.
26. Ćosić, "Srbi i Slovenci nekad i danas, "in Ćosić, Stvarno i moguće, 175.
27. Ibid., 176.
28. Ćosić, "Književnost i istorija danas, "126.
29. However, it must be said that in Time of Death, he introduced the theme of Austrian genocide against the Serbs in the specific context of the First World War.
30. Dobrica Ćosić, Vreme smrti. 3 vols. (Belgrade: Prosveta, 1972-75).
31. Vuk Drašković, "Jugoslavija i srpsko pitanje, "in Koekude, Srbijo (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1990), 43.
32. Ćosić wrote: "[Kardelj] systematically, cleverly, evolutionarily, and, I would say, in a machiavellian way worked to create a Slovenian state in the framework of Yugoslavia…. After the liquidation of Ranković, those thirteen years [until Kardelj's death] represent Kardelj's absolute political dominaton of Yugoslavia" (Slavoljub Djukić, Slom srpskih liberala: Tehnologija političkih obračuna Josipa Broza [Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1990], 155).
33. Ćosić, Promene, 23.
34. Ćosić, "Kritika vladajuće, "31.
35. Djukić, Slom, 149.
36. Ibid., 156.
37. Ibid., 157.
38. Ibid., 161.
39. Ibid., 165.
40. Čavoški, Tito: Tehnologija vlasti, 50.
41. Djukić, Čovek u svom vremenu, 178.
42. Zoran Sekulić, Pad i čutnja Alesandra Rankovića (Belgrade: Dositej, 1989), 151.
43. Sekulić, Pad i čutnja, 186.
44. Ćosić, Promene, 19.
45. Djukić, Čovek u svom vremenu, 174.
46. Ibid.
47. As his friend Mića Popović put it, Ćosić could be "in the middle of nowhere" and feel at home among the people there (Milo Gligorijević, Odgovor Miće Popovića [Belgrade: Nezavisna izdanja, 1984] 55).
48. Djukić, Čovcek u svom vremenu, 172-73.
49. Ibid., 177.
50. Ibid.
51. Drašković was a novelist who would later lead the Serbian Renewal Movement. This quote comes from a 1986 talk entitled "Are There Limits to Our Degradation?" before the Serbian Writers' Association. This passage, I think, captures the euphoric nature of Serbian suffering; Vuk Drašković, "Are There Limits to Our Degradation?" in Koekude Srbijo (Belgrade: Nova Knjiga, 1990), 13-14. See also the intriguing article by Drinka Gojković, "Trauma bez katarze, "in Nebojša Popov, ed., Srpska strana rata: Trauma i katarza u istorijskom pamćenju (Belgrade: Republika, 1996) 365-93, especially the section on "language, "385 ff.
52. Drašković was a novelist who would later lead the Serbian Renewal Movement. This quote comes from a 1986 talk entitled "Are There Limits to Our Degradation?" before the Serbian Writers' Association. This passage, I think, captures the euphoric nature of Serbian suffering; Vuk Drašković, "Are There Limits to Our Degradation?" in Koekude Srbijo (Belgrade: Nova Knjiga, 1990), 13-14. See also the intriguing article by Drinka Gojković, "Trauma bez katarze, "in Nebojša Popov, ed., Srpska strana rata: Trauma i katarza u istorijskom pamćenju (Belgrade: Republika, 1996) 365-93, especially the section on "language, "385 ff.
53. Langdon Healy has noted that photographs of Serbs leaving Kosovo and of amassed Serbs petitioning Belgrade mirrored artwork portraying the flight of the Serbs and their patriarch from Kosovo in the late seventeenth century. Healy, "Visualizing the Borderland: Pictorial Images of Serbian Emigration from Kosovo" (paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch at Fullerton, Ca., 11 August 1994).
54. Branka Magaš presents an excellent account of this phenomenon in The Destruction of Yugoslavia: Tracking the Breakup, 1980-92 (London and New York: Verso, 1993).
55. Examples: Miloš Mišović, Ko je tražio republiku? Kosovo, 1945-1985 (Belgrade: Narodna knjiga, 1985); Dimitrije Bogdanović, Knjiga o kosovu (Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 1986); Atanasije Jevtić, Stradanje Srba na kosovu i metohiji oil 1941. do 1990 (Priština: Jedinstvo, 1990).
56. Examples: Miloš Mišović, Ko je tražio republiku? Kosovo, 1945-1985 (Belgrade: Narodna knjiga, 1985); Dimitrije Bogdanović, Knjiga o kosovu (Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 1986); Atanasije Jevtić, Stradanje Srba na kosovu i metohiji oil 1941. do 1990 (Priština: Jedinstvo, 1990).
57. Examples: Miloš Mišović, Ko je tražio republiku? Kosovo, 1945-1985 (Belgrade: Narodna knjiga, 1985); Dimitrije Bogdanović, Knjiga o kosovu (Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, 1986); Atanasije Jevtić, Stradanje Srba na kosovu i metohiji oil 1941. do 1990 (Priština: Jedinstvo, 1990).
58. Some examples include articles in Vasilije Krestić, Srpskohrvatski odnosi i jugoslovenska ideja u drugoj polovini XIX veka (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1988), 339-68; and Dragoljub Živojinović, Varvarstvo u ime Hristovo: Prilozi za Magnum Crimen (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1988). See Ivo Banac, "Historiography of the Countries of Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia, "in American Historical Review (October 1992): 1084-1104.
59. Some examples include articles in Vasilije Krestić, Srpskohrvatski odnosi i jugoslovenska ideja u drugoj polovini XIX veka (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1988), 339-68; and Dragoljub Živojinović, Varvarstvo u ime Hristovo: Prilozi za Magnum Crimen (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1988). See Ivo Banac, "Historiography of the Countries of Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia, "in American Historical Review (October 1992): 1084-1104.
60. Some examples include articles in Vasilije Krestić, Srpskohrvatski odnosi i jugoslovenska ideja u drugoj polovini XIX veka (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1988), 339-68; and Dragoljub Živojinović, Varvarstvo u ime Hristovo: Prilozi za Magnum Crimen (Belgrade: Nova knjiga, 1988). See Ivo Banac, "Historiography of the Countries of Eastern Europe: Yugoslavia, "in American Historical Review (October 1992): 1084-1104.
61. Vasilije Krestić, "O genezi genocida nad Srbima u NDH u periodu do prvog svetskog rata, "Književne novine, 15 September 1986.
62. Čavoški, Tito-Tehnologija vlasti, 5.
63. Books on Ranković include Sekulić, Pad i ćutnja Aleksandra Rankovića; Vojin Lukić, Sećanja i saznanja: Aleksandar Ranković i Brionski plenum (Titograd: Novica Jovović, 1989); Jovan Kesar and Pero Simić, LEKA: Aleksandar Ranković (Belgrade: Akvarijus, 1990); Selim Numić, Dobra zemljo, lažu: Do istine u brionskoj aferi prisluškivanja (Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1989).
64. Books on Ranković include Sekulić, Pad i ćutnja Aleksandra Rankovića; Vojin Lukić, Sećanja i saznanja: Aleksandar Ranković i Brionski plenum (Titograd: Novica Jovović, 1989); Jovan Kesar and Pero Simić, LEKA: Aleksandar Ranković (Belgrade: Akvarijus, 1990); Selim Numić, Dobra zemljo, lažu: Do istine u brionskoj aferi prisluškivanja (Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1989).
65. Books on Ranković include Sekulić, Pad i ćutnja Aleksandra Rankovića; Vojin Lukić, Sećanja i saznanja: Aleksandar Ranković i Brionski plenum (Titograd: Novica Jovović, 1989); Jovan Kesar and Pero Simić, LEKA: Aleksandar Ranković (Belgrade: Akvarijus, 1990); Selim Numić, Dobra zemljo, lažu: Do istine u brionskoj aferi prisluškivanja (Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 1989).
66. Dragoslav Marković, Život i politika; Latinka Perović, Zatvaranje kruga: Ishod rascepa 1971-1972 (Sarajevo: Svjetlost, 1991).
67. Dobrica Ćosić. "Ne mačem-nego duhom, "in Književne novine, 1 November 1990.