Pisanje o ratu
Writing about War

Summary/Abstract: The introductory text of the magazine is a kind of personal view, so the section is titled In the First Person. This time it is written by the young Sarajevan poet Senadin Musabegović. The text, entitled Writing about War, is a story written in a confessional manner about an encounter with the Norwegian author Bjorn Larson, who complains about the lack of conflicts in everyday life which could provide the basis for a good story (the theme of his novel is war in Algeria). In reply, Musabegović refers to Bergman’s characters, who speak dramatically about inner war. Bergman did not need war to make a story. His characters are not placed into the context of real war, with shells exploding, but they nevertheless talk about war. When I write about war, says Musabegović, which really and most brutally happened to me, I am attempting to address it from the perspective of the inner war that happened inside me. Even when we address war in the language of sheer facts, describing it coldly and in an almost documentary manner, it is still only the account of our inner experience of the world, states Musabegović.

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