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<\/a>Photo: Personal archive<\/strong><\/p>\n Writer and translator Borivoj Radakovi\u0107 was born in 1951 in Zemun. He has published: the novels<\/u> Sjaj epohe<\/em> (The Glory of the Epoch<\/strong><\/em>, 1990, 2009), Virusi<\/em> (Viruses<\/strong>,<\/em> 2005) and \u0160to \u0107e biti s nama<\/em> (What Will Become of Us<\/strong>,<\/em> verse novel, 2015), the story collections<\/u> Ne, to nisam ja (No, That\u2019s Not Me<\/strong>, <\/em>1993, 1999), Porno (Porn<\/strong>,<\/em> 2002), the book of selected stories <\/u>Jako<\/em> (Very<\/strong>,<\/em> 2013) and the book of essays and travelogue<\/u> Sredina naprijed!<\/em> (Middle, Move Forward!<\/strong>,<\/em> 2003). The Theatre Kerempuh has staged his dramas<\/u>: Dobrodo\u0161li u plavi pakao<\/em> (Welcome to Blue Hell<\/strong>,<\/em> 1994), Mis nebodera za Mis svijeta<\/em> (Miss Skyscraper for Miss World<\/strong>,<\/em> 1998) and Kaj sad? (What now?,<\/em> 2002), all three being published in the book of dramas Plavi grad<\/em> (The Blue City<\/strong>,<\/em> 2002). He has also published the dramas: Breza<\/em> (Birch<\/strong>, <\/em>after motifs from the prose of Slavko Kolar, 2010), Amateri<\/em> (Amateurs<\/strong>,<\/em> 2010), Grupa<\/em> (The Group<\/strong>,<\/em> 2013) and Dobitnik<\/em> (The Winner<\/strong>, <\/em>2015)<\/p>\n He has prepared the anthology of lesbian poetry Dvije (Two<\/strong>, <\/em>1992), as well as the compendium Hrvatske no\u0107i \/ Croatian Nights<\/em><\/strong> with Matt Thorne and Tony White, which was published in Great Britain as well (2005).<\/p>\n With Arseno Oremovi\u0107, he has co-edited the book of stories Zvu\u010dni zid<\/em> (The Sound Barrier<\/strong>,<\/em> 2009).<\/p>\n He is one of the founders of the FAK<\/em><\/strong> (Festival of A Literature<\/em><\/strong>).<\/p>\n His new novel Ne diraj me!<\/em> (Don\u2019t Touch Me!<\/em><\/strong>) is about to get out of print and the Gavella Theatre has announced that his drama Borba i dosada: kratka povjest rokenrola<\/em> (Struggle and Boredom: a Short History of Rock \u2019n\u2019 roll<\/strong>)<\/em> will be staged in 2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ABOUT BOOKS<\/strong><\/p>\n What Will Become of Us<\/em> is a superbly written dystopian novel. The main heroine filthily rich Lily, who lives on a high floor of a skyscraper at Cvjetni trg, Petra Preradovi\u0107a and Brotherhood and Unity Streets, enters one day at Kruge into Zagreb\u2019s underground railway to get to see ordinary life. A huge clash with the lives of people struggling for bare survival ensues, and a bit later, a water bomb is dropped from a Canadair onto the mosque near her skyscraper. A violent change takes over the city. Lily meets e-Romas, numerous minorities, various social groups, and tries to save Zagreb through them. The reader is presented with an orchestration of stylistic and life riches of the first class.<\/p>\n Alojz Mejeti\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n The Glory of the Epoch<\/em> was the first novel of the generation that had experienced punk and the new wave. For the first time in the history of Croatian literature, there appeared football fans, such as we know them today, violent and adrenalized, infused with ideals one readily dies for. The Glory of the Epoch<\/em> was our first urban prose text, one of those that would continue to be written in the late 1990s and, at a certain moment, were to grow into a manner of the generation.<\/p>\n Miljenko Jergovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n Exploring, twisting and turning all the possible meanings of particular words, leading them to clashes and into contexts that give them new, different, richer, more complex meanings, combining Croatian with other languages \u200b\u200b(which permeate it in the modern media atmosphere), making combinations and incredible inversions, Radakovi\u0107 has proven that the original authorial inspiration can turn Croatian language into a world-class medium! Otherwise, his collection of strange stories \u2013 homunculus, provokes attention on some other levels as well – from the horoscope combinatorics to literary-historical irony, from the Orwellian projection of our modernity to sexual indecency – so it seems that Borivoj Radakovi\u0107 has more \u201cavant-garde\u201d potential than the whole generation that he is immersed in.<\/p>\n Igor Mandi\u0107<\/em> (About the book No, That\u2019s Not Me<\/em>)<\/p>\n Overwhelmingly, the language is colloquially used – alive, urban, from slang to certain dialectical features, full of direct expressions and curses, active and agile intertwined with scientific expressions and terminology of a similar kind. With his view of reality the writer attracts, shocks, sometimes draws a smile, but we more find ourselves entrapped in vicious circles, out of which a \u201cfallen angel\u201d can hardly get his wings and take off.<\/p>\n Lidija Mustedanazi\u0107<\/em> (about the story collection Very<\/em>)<\/p>\n Radakovi\u0107 has opened quite a number of taboos of our literature, primarily those of contemporary violence – sexual and physical, media, nationalistic. Radakovi\u0107\u2019s literature has always been a fierce accusation against all those who have incited and incite abuse, torture and murder. This may sound strange to those who remember this writer primarily for his aggressive writing – Radakovi\u0107 is also a humourist, but in his literature humour and horror, pornography, melancholy, pacifism, and swear words alternate at a dizzying speed. Radakovi\u0107 is an \u201cantithetical\u201d author, but the \u201cpornographic\u201d rewriting of genres, \u201cswearing\u201d rhetoric, making fun of the myths – male-patriarchal, national, national-literary and linguistic – works well within the same matrix…<\/p>\n Nenad Rizvanovi\u0107<\/em> (about the novel Porn<\/em>)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo: Personal archive Writer and translator Borivoj Radakovi\u0107 was born in 1951 in Zemun. He has published: the novels Sjaj epohe (The Glory of the Epoch, 1990, 2009), Virusi (Viruses, 2005) and \u0160to \u0107e biti s nama (What Will Become of Us, verse novel, 2015), the story collections Ne, to nisam ja (No, That\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ucesnici-2018"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosefest.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}