Daša Drndić Quotes

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Art cannot change the world, but it can change us.

Daša Drndić
Art is detail. I do not see the attention to detail as an act of masochism, but as the capacity to look, see, listen, and hear.

Daša Drndić
As to the failings of the human body, that is a normal process. It's the failings of the human mind that are disturbing and dangerous.

Daša Drndić
She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones.

Daša Drndić
Life is made up of separation. From one's mother, from oneself, from used-up times, all made up of bright or dark gradual separations, in stages.

Daša Drndić
Art can and may aestheticize, but I do not think that is its only function.

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Our fugues are our beliefs, our common sense, our gods, they are the peace with which we decorate our lives as we decorate Christmas trees, at times excessively.

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Art should shock, hurt, offend, intrigue, be a merciless critic of the merciless times we are not only witnessing but whose victims we have become.

Daša Drndić
Good literature asks for a trauma—a personal, collective, historical trauma, no matter—and then the ability to formulate it. Good literature does not need "a story."

Daša Drndić
It is how events are presented that separate good literature from mediocre fictionalized writing, so often a boring linear construction.

Daša Drndić
There are no small fascisms, there are no small, benign Nazisms.

Daša Drndić
In this age of aggressive revisionism—which tends to brainwash our already damaged, deformed minds—without memory, we are easy prey to manipulation, we lose identity.

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I love open endings, generally speaking, and not only in literature. The undefined, the unrestricted offers freedom of thought and freedom of action.

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Conversations about the past are like little confessions, like unburdenings, after which the soul returns to the present on angel wings, fluttery and luminous.

Daša Drndić
All of them have the feeling they are suffocating, because they are not able in any way to alter the situation they find themselves in.

Daša Drndić