Pabirci - 2004.
Pabirci - 2004.

Summary/Abstract: The Diary of this issue is written by a well-known Croatian writer, Daπa Drndić. Her diary’s search for order in the pieces of her experienced and imagined reality begins in Croatia, in Rijeka, where she has lived in recent years. The episodes of her very personal experience of movement from Belgrade to Croatia in the years of collective madness in the Balkans are intermingled with reflections on her literary and academic engagement within the structure of perverted academic and cultural institutions. Daπa continues her refreshing, but somewhat anxious considerations with a walk in the streets of Vienna, reflecting on the ill-omened silence that preceded and enabled the deportations of so many Viennese Jews into death camps. Talking about deported people also means talking about their neighbours, about the silence that, even decades after the defeat of fascism, has not been beaten out by a sound that would let Daπa give another title to the brief, closing chapter of her diary notes. Thus, her diary ends with a passage titled The Despair, and a Kierkegaard’s citation: Sickness of dying, and not being able to die. Sickness unto death.

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