Bibliography
Collected Works:
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Milan Nešiæ
(1939)
Published
FIRST DAYS
in 1974
and
ESSAY ON
GOD in 1976.
In 1982 he wrote
POLITICS, BREAD
AND BOOKS
(taken by the
archives of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts for preservation).
PHILOSOPHY
AND BELIEF
followed in
1984
(manuscript in
the library of the then Yugoslav Academy of Science and Arts).
When political
circumstances finally permitted, the above works (including the last two)
were published in one four-volume
book under the title:
THROUGH
SOCIALISM TO GOD, 1991.
Milan Nešiæ
was awarded the
Barbara Bauer
(U. S. A.)
Literary Agency
certificate of
approval in recognition of eleven fragments from all four books, presented
as a collection of tales:
THROUGH
SOCIALISM TO WAR, 1992.
He published
FIFTY YEARS
TO WAR
Fife Stories of Socialism from a Personal Point of
View
in 1993,
THE POET AND
HIS WIFE
in 1994,
(An insert has been
translated into German and published in the Viennese magazine
"LOG - Zeitschrift für internationale Literatur"
under the title In Vienna, Vol. 83/99),
THE PATTERN AND
KANT
Three Stories
of Human Nature from our Point of View
in
1996,
THE KISS
in 1997,
THE UNUSUAL
DRIVER'S STORIES
in
1998,
THE STORY
ABOUT FATHER AND FATHERLAND
in
2001
and
THE LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
in 2001.
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Beside his
books,
Milan
Nešiæ has published an article in the form of an essay called
"From
WOOLLY TIMES to THE MAD HOUSE,
A letter sketching the literary and
spiritual situation in the post-Tito era"
published in
a special double issue of the magazine, "Moja Srbija" (Vol. 17-18/95).
The article
has been translated into German and published in serial form in the
Viennese magazine "LOG, Zeitschrift für
internationale Literatur",
Vol. 69/95
and further.
He also
wrote the epilogue to a collection of poems by Svetlana Ðurovitæ Ada,
called
"Not a Critique, More about the Dreams and Reality of Svetlana
Ðuroviæ Ada, in the Context of All Our Realities",
1995.
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Collected Works:
1. FIRST DAYS,
third fixed edition, 2001
2. ESSAY ON GOD
On Relativity and Symmetry
Regarding the Death of Grandpa John,
third fixed edition, 2001
3.
POLITICS, BREAD AND BOOKS
second edition, 2004
4. PHILOSOPHY AND BELIEF
Introduction into the Thought of Contradictory Whole,
second edition, 2002
5. FIFTY YEARS TO WAR
Six Stories of Socialism from a Personal Point of View
second edition, 2004
6. THE PATTERN AND KANT
Six Stories of Human Nature from our Point of View
second edition, 2004
7. THE KISS
second edition, 2004
8. THE STORY ABOUT FATHER AND FATHERLAND,
historic-philosophical novel, first edition 2001
9. THE LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY,
collage, first edition 2001
10. THE FOUR
SEASONS,
Mister X's Ode
of Joy
first edition
2007
11.
THE OTHER LONG DAYS,
The
Detective Documentary Story in Witch Also the Author Might Be Killed
first edition
2009
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©opyright Author,
Milan
Nesic
SRB-11231 BEOGRAD
Milene Pavlovic-Barili 6/I/5
Tel/Fax: – 381-11-8041599
04.09.09
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Vote to
Impeach
or also
to
Where Are Beginning Imposition and Violence? |
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Mutual esteem, respect and
consideration resolve these things, or should the conflict of two rights
mean war? |
A paraphrase from the story RESPECT AND AWE, motto of the
collection
THE PATTERN AND KANT |
BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
NOTE
Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
in 1939, where he still lives, he graduated as an electrical engineer and was
employed for some time on the regulation of d.c. motor speed on machine tools.
He has published professional articles in Automatika magazine but now
works primarily as a private teacher of mathematics. He writes in his native
language, Serbo-Croatian, but also speaks German and reads English. Among his
previous works are the following:
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A novel about how and why a
young and talented engineer goes to work abroad. Economic and moral disharmony,
perhaps as a reflection of the ruling ideology, are unseeing but inevitable
reality in the heart and thinking of a young man, torn between two alternatives:
to understand and leave or to believe and put up with it. The big publishing
houses did not want to take the political risk of publishing this book. It was
accepted by Obelisk, which subsequently went (politically) bankrupt and
the book was eventually published at the author's expense. The Serbian Ministry
of Culture purchased part of the first edition and paid the author a fee. In
this way, the book found its way into libraries throughout Serbia but without a
single review appearing in the press.
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On Relativity and Symmetry
Regarding the Death of Grandpa John
Actually a philosophical
novel, this is a literary introduction to a philosophy which indeed adopts all
the axioms of the official dialectic materialism of the time, but only as mere
descriptions. Based on contemporary exact sciences, it attempts a deeper
contemplation of reality. Thus it may be considered a kind of encyclopedic
anthology of extracts from physics, chemistry, molecular biology and evolution.
It also proposes
a new interpretation of Einstein's postulate of the constant
velocity of light with reference to the quantum field
theory. The essay did not
suit the publishers' programs, so was published by the author himself. As the
authorities refused to exempt it from sales tax, book stores would not take it
for sale. However, it was not banned.
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A social novel to a certain
extent, it however deals with actual cultural and political incidents concerning
Gajo Petroviæ,
Tode Èolak and so on. These
serve as an alibi for
reflections on Yugoslav society and on society in general,
with an occasional excursion into philosophy. The final chapter lays the
foundations for a future political economics of socialism, pointing out the
basic socio-economic relationship of such a society and its inherent
contradiction: personal or group ownership over the right to political
decision. The manuscript was not accepted. The archives of the Serbian
Academy of Science and Arts in Belgrade took one copy for preservation.
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Introduction to the Thought of
Contradictory Whole
An introduction to the idea of
a contradictory whole. Although presented in literary style, this is actually a philosophic work in the ontological sense: regardless of dogmatic or ideological
division into materialism and idealism, and the beliefs they engender, it
considers the main question of philosophy to be the existence of the world, the
answer to which is to be found within itself. The attempt to answer this
question opens up possibilities of a new debate with a widely varied range of
philosophers: Berkeley and
Spinoza,
Kant,
Hegel and
Kierkegaard, which renders
meaningless the philosophical foundation of any
ideology which seeks to exclude other ideas. This philosophy of existence was not accepted either. A copy was
taken by the library of the then Yugoslav Academy of Science and Arts in Zagreb.
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When political circumstances
finally permitted (1991),
the above works were published in one four-volume book under the title:
THROUGH SOCIALISM TO GOD
The title is symbolic of how
we suffered under socialism and how each pursued his or her own hopes and
beliefs, backwards through socialism to the older values and to parliamentarian
government.
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1992,
THROUGH SOCIALISM TO WAR
This is not a new book either,
but consists of eleven fragments from all four books, selected by the author and
presented as a collection of tales in five parts, each with its own heading:
Part I
— How it began
A Little Piece of Paper
Word After Words
Part II —The
quandaries we were in
Tea for Two
The Waiting
Is There Enough Time?
Part III ― Where we
looked for faith and hope
Grandpa John's
Death
Little Nata's Baptism
Part IV ― Kinds of
religious and ideological interdiction
Aunt
Marx and Mathematics,
and
Part V — After
dreadful destruction, only love can begin from nothing, just as God, it is said,
created the world out of nothing. And then there will be room for everyone, for
every creed and every philosophy
The Blank Letter
Nothing and All
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1993,
FIFTY YEARS TO WAR
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Review |
Five Stories of Socialism
from a Personal Point of View
It
is self-evident that historical and political circumstances influence the
fortunes of men and of entire families. But the far-reaching and unfathomable
influence of ideology and its latent violence on the psyche
—
and the irrational paths of love or hatred it may take
—
can only be understood by someone who has had the good fortune to ultimately
arrive at a sufficient understanding of his own
MOTHER
and father, and with them of any ideology, and thereby of the world.
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It
is not always easy to separate economic difficulties from political
circumstances. One case of economic emigration is described in the novel FIRST
DAYS. Ideological pressure on the economy may cause various forms of internal
emigration, the ultimate motive for which may actually be
TAX.
Does one social system create
a special psychological type of people, or is it the other way about: are the
authoritarian traits in man's very nature the reason why authoritarian and
totalitarian regimes constantly appear in various places throughout the world?
THE
MYSTERIOUS MILO may reveal some of the secrets
of this correlation.
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There can be no doubt that discovering the meaning of the world is necessary to
man as an individual. This is the reason for the appearance of the great Utopian
ideas throughout history: Plato, Christ, Moore, Owen, Saint-Simon, Marx and
Engels. If, however, an institution or armed force stands behind such an idea,
its meaning will necessarily become inverted. The story
THE CONTRACT shows what wonders may then
occur: an apartment costing one hundred thousand German marks, for example, may
ultimately be bought for a couple of hundred (not a hundred thousand, just a
hundred), albeit under certain conditions. What are they?
If you met a man on the street
of any town in the world and asked him, if this or that is a law, regulation or
just a government recommendation —
perhaps only a political slogan — he will in all likelihood simply shrug his
shoulders. How this may be abused in a political monopoly is illustrated by the
story THE FIRST IS
SECOND, using the example of the foreign language taught in schools. An
absurdity wrapped in the aureole of the mystique of power.
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1994,
THE POET AND HIS WIFE |
Review |
The
eight short stories published in this book are also from the cycle of twenty-two
stories called TALES OF LOVE AND HATE, which only on completion form a whole.
Therefore "Five Stories of Socialism from a Personal Point of View" under the
title FIFTY YEARS TO WAR belong to the same cycle, to which their topics form a
sub-entity. Although the stories are not interdependent, they form a collection
which the public has accepted as a novel, a fact which can only gladden the
writer's heart: it means that he has managed by subsequently reconciling the
names of people and places, to underline the fact that they do form a whole. So,
THE POET AND HIS WIFE,
having the same name as this now collection, is indeed the sixth story of
socialism. This is strictly autobiographical, i.e. in the usual literary sense
that it is unimportant whether it is actually one's sister or one's cousin,
one's first wife or one's second who is at issue, and so on.
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1996,
THE PATTERN AND KANT |
Review |
Three Stories of Human Nature from our Point of View
For these Stories
—
The Pattern,
Respect and Awe and
In Passing Perhaps —
the author has written the following
introducing note for the first release of this book:
This
is the continuing story of Milosh Bratich and the rest of us which began with
"At the Airport", published in the short story collection THE POET AND HIS WIFE.
"In Passing Perhaps" completes the first circle of the imaginary cycle
TALES OF
LOVE AND HATE. When the remaining stories will be published, or whether they
will be written at all, remains uncertain. An ideology of intolerance, policies
based on a psychology of intolerance and finally the war, have paradoxically
resulted in proving the politicians who started it all to be right yet again:
there are now more urgent matters to attend to than any material or spiritual
investment — even if in the mere literary analysis of the human lives of
yesterday — regardless of whether the root causes of all our
destinies today may lie there.
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These six stories complete the second circle of the cycle
tales of love and hate:
There is a Moment, is There?
The Saturday, after Twenty Years
This is not His Car
The Objectivity and Objective
The Letter of Her Husband
Milosh's Disappearance
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2001,
THE STORY
ABOUT FATHER AND FATHERLAND |
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A historic-philosophical novel with following chapters:
The Sunrise
I have decided on beginning
Father, Mother and
Grave of Mother
East, West and The
Sunset
There is no beginning or an end,
The beginning is accidence, the end a projection,
I have decided on beginning, I have imagined the end
Consequently, I
Imagined the End
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2001,
THE LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
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Collage of the until now unpublished or only radioed stories,
radio-conversations, prefaces, objections and so on — in chronological order.
Last update on:
04 September, 2009 |