Сарамаго о Југославијама: ратови и коментари
SARAMAGO ON YUGOSLAVIAS: WARS AND COMMENTARIES

Summary/Abstract: Portuguese writer José Saramago (1922–2010) addressed the wars of the 1990s in the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in both his diary entries and public statements. This paper examines his writings about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as presented in his diaries Notebooks of Lanzarote, his reflections on Portugal’s future in light of the circumstances that befell Yugoslavia, translations of his books into South Slavic languages, as well as his interview published in the daily newspaper Politika. Particular attention is paid to the views this distinctly leftwing, publicly engaged intellectual expressed on the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and on Slobodan Milošević, shortly after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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