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Summary/Abstract: In the column entitled DIALOGUE, two writers from Serbia, Mihajlo Pantić and David Albahari, discuss life and literature. As contemporaries and friends, they have no trouble establishing a dialogue that implicitly deals with Albahari’s early writings, his first books, the Belgrade atmosphere in which he lived and worked, the friends who had a major influence on him. Not surprisingly, the dialogue is permeated with the destiny of writers in exile, a destiny shared by Albahari, who has been living in Canada for the past ten years. Indeed, almost every member of an entire generation of writers is living and working abroad: not only David Albahari himself, but also Snežana Bukal, Vladimir Albahari, Aleksandar Hemon, Predrag Matvejević, Semezdin Mehmedinović, Bora Ćosić, and Vidosav Stevanović, to mention just a few. What this dialogue reveals, in fact, is the tragic fate of the writers whom the war in this part of the world has so widely dispersed.

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