Povestea - o constantă negociere şi renegociere a eului
The story - a constant negotiation and renegotiation of the self

Summary/Abstract: The „story” of the Balkans is a saga of Eastern Europe. The ethnic-conflicts were always present between mix-nations who have lived here for centuries across their history. We were contemporary to the last explosion of Europe’s power keg, as the Balkans were called. But, in modern times, the sense of conflict is unacceptable to a certain part of today's society. In the literary world, there was a virulent attack against the ongoing tension. This is also the attitude developed by Goran Stefanovsky in his dramaturgical triptych: Sarajevo, Hotel Europa and Ex-Yu. The Macedonian author speaks about trauma, post-trauma and the attempt to reconciliation. In a world where the individual stories are crippled or changed from their original meaning, „a question always comes up”, says Stefanovski, using one of his character‘s voice: „If my father is part of one nation and my mother is part of a second nation which is in conflict with the first, then who am I?”

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