Dragoslav Mihailovićs Werk im Kontext politischer Rezeptionen
Dragoslav Mihailović’s Opus in the Context of Political Reception

Summary/Abstract: Every literary work changes over time because its context and the people who read it change. This is especially true for the Serbian-Yugoslav author Dragoslav Mihailović (1930–2023), who published his first text in 1957. He was publicly attacked by Tito in 1969 and received, nevertheless, all his country’s major literary awards during his life. Three stages of reception stand out: first the 1960s, marked by the peak of Yugoslavia’s liberalization and a shift towards a nationally oriented consciousness; secondly the period after Tito’s death, where criticism of Yugoslav socialism fatally coincided with nationalist movments; and thirdly the present, in which a return to a less politicized reception of literature is taking place.

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