Kritičko preispitivanje
A critical re-examination

Summary/Abstract: A critical re-examination and escape from the hypnotic persistence of political and national narcissism. Here in an Obsolescent Land it is the ever-present limits of the intellect, of the true, within the context and outlook of the experience, actions and sensitivity of Ivo Komšić. The work was composed at a time of horror, of Nazi/context. It bears witness in distinctive manner by simply citing facts, which belong to the language of shame and pain in which people disagree. It is a way of dispelling the spectre of Nazism, of silencing the cries of hatred, of ideology, and of affirming the communicative process of the transitional intellect beyond the fatality of Cain’s city, built as it is on carnage. This is what Ivo Komšić achieves in his literary thought; he manages to give unambiguous expression to the destructive power of conquest and genocide, to the mystery of love and creation, wherein lies only the depths of “human suffering” that belongs, sad to say, to all of time. Modern man is finding a way of breaking away from the frenetic quest for identity, of stripping identity – principally, national identity, which is multidimensio­nal (language, religion, history, values and morality) – of its self-deception, of the danger that gets to us under the aegis of fear and helplessness. Key words: limits of the intellect, language of shame, transitional intellect, frenetic quest for identity, language, religion, history, citing facts

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