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I can agree with S.P. Novak that “when one of the best Croatian writers” Antun Šoljan writes a critique for Die Zeit, then it is not a case of the persecution of a female writer and there is no need to put her name on a list of people who have problems with the state and politics since it would be, as S.P.N. says in Nedjeljna Dalmacija, - an exchange of views. But what can we do when a text by D.U. is “critiqued” in a dirty little bulletin of the party in power and written by one of the “Thea Binzes” (in quotation marks because of the court) of Croatian journalism - Hloverka Novak-Srzić and when the “criticism” - blindly written as usual, as the accused articles are never translated - isn’t a “criticism” at all but a denunciation filled with allusions about Dubravka’s nationality. Or what to do when the other self-proclaimed hater of Serbs, Tanja Torbarina, who makes her articles out of human skin (like Thea Binz made lamp-shades in German camps) mentions “Milorad Pupovac’s thin neck” in Globus? What is the first association when a thin Serbian neck is mentioned? Can honourable members and officials of the Croatian P.E.N., Croatian writers and the entire Croatian academic and intellectual public (who have never reacted to such cases) think about that before they fiercely and angrily attack Dubravka Ugrešić, Rada Iveković, Slavenka Drakulić? Or is this again a case of - an exchange of views?
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