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Ako imate vremena i raspoloženja, u književnom časopisu Los Angeles review of books prošle godine je objavljen zanimljiv osvrt na knjigu Rebeke Vest "Crno jagnje i sivi soko", njenom putopisu o Jugoslaviji i srpskom narodu nakon prvog svetskog rata. Mada je ta knjiga dugo uživala izuzetan status kao literarno putopisno delo, zbog svog pozitivnog odnosa prema Srbima i Jugoslaviji, skrajnuta je i prepuštena zaboravu u američkoj kulturnoj javnosti.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-judgment-of-rebecca-west/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-judgment-of-rebecca-west/
It is very hard to imagine President Clinton and his top advisors taking the time to read this book. (Indeed, Lord David Owen, whose proposals undergirded the Dayton Agreement ending the war, suggests that he didn’t read enough: “At the start of the fighting I had dipped into, rather than reread, Rebecca West’s account of her travel through Yugoslavia in the late 1930s.”) Holbrooke notes West’s undisputed influence on a popular and timely work, Balkan Ghosts (1993), written by itinerant journalist Robert D. Kaplan — who has been quoted as saying he would much rather lose his passport than his copy of West’s book. According to Holbrooke, Balkan Ghosts “left most of its readers with the sense that nothing could be done by outsiders in a region so steeped in ancient hatreds.” In response, Kaplan repudiated the notion that his writing was intended to influence decision-makers, since his reporting was done during the late 1980s and Balkan Ghosts was published before the wars of succession had really started. For her part, West had been dead for over a decade and could not defend herself.
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Da, mnogi pisci vise vole da se izrazavaju kroz pisanje, i to onda kad im naidje inspiracija, ali nekako ocekujes od takve jedne velicine da u skladu sa svojim imenom, moze da pokaze koliki je erudit i da makar delic svojih spisateljskih mogucnosti pretoci u obican opusten razgovor u cetiri oka. Pored toga, drzanje mu je bilo, skoro pa onom iz Booke iz Munlajtinog posta
nemam ja pojma, slučajno sam u komisiji za dodelu sredstava,...U ostalom, bog je prvo sebi stvorio bradu, ko ni je za sebe, nije ni za druge...