The Text on Exile, Demetra, Zagreb, 2007
The Text on Exile is a combination of essays and stories, an intertextual narrative of a sort, dealing with fear in the time of war, exile and adopting a new language, the nature of text and various fates of emigrants, memories and return to homeland, hope and happiness...Mersad Berber is the author of the illustrations in The Text on Exile. The promotion of the book is set for 29 August in Opatija, Croatia on the Bejahad 2007. Professor Dimitrije Savic, the editor of Demetra (Zagreb) and Predag Finci (London) will introduce the book..
Instead of a CV
I was born somewhere sometime and am still alive and kicking. I was only 20 when I left my parents' home, found a small room in mahala and dreamed of never leaving my home town. Then, it all happened.... I am partly dyslexic and my glasses don't help me a lot, probably because they were made in my communist homeland and with them I can see only the bright future. Yes, I was born under a red, red star...Read more (pdf)
Bio & Biblio
Predrag Finci (Sarajevo, 1946) completed Gymnasium, Drama Studio and Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, and a two year Counselling Course in London. Read more
Selected Essays
Noah got drunk first.
At least, that is what the Book says. It says he grew grapevine on the slopes of the Ararat Mountain, started a vineyard, made wine, he was inoffensive, just, respected. Then he got drunk, his sons saw him naked, ridiculed him. They disgraced him because he disgraced himself. Go to Selected Essays
On Some Secondary Matters
If the theme of the following essays may be summed up in one single sentence then, perhaps, it would be most appropriate to say that they draw attention to detail that marginally accompanies a work of art, yet is inseparable from artistic practice, be it a question of the 'circumstances' in which the artist is situated, or be it a question, and this is their subject above all, of the nature of aesthetic epiphenomena, or, finally, of the artistic creators' auto-reception of his work.Go to On Some Secondary Matters
