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.

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.

A social novel to a certain extent, it however deals with actual cultural and political incidents concerning Gajo Petrović, Tode Čolak 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.

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.

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.

1992,

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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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.

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.