A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Vladimir Tasić i Igor Štiks na književnom festivalu „Glasovi sveta“ u Njujorku

Vladimir Tasić i Igor Štiks, autori Arhipelaga, učestvuju na ovogodišnjem književnom festivalu Glasovi sveta koji se održava od 28. aprila do 4. maja u Njujorku u organizaciji Američkog PEN centra.

Tasić i Štiks učestvuju i u posebnom festivalskom programu koji je posvećen književnosti Balkana. Zajedno sa njima, književnost Balkana na čitanju u Bruklinu 3. maja predstaviće Aleksandar Hemon, Ognjen Spahić i Miljenka Mika Buljević.

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Festival Glasovi sveta za svega nekoliko godina postao je jedan od najprestižnijih svetskih književnih događaja. Festival je 2005. godine osnovao Salman Rušdi zamišljajući ga kao „platformu za podsticanje dijaloga o individualnim pravima i slobodama među piscima i intelektualcima iz različitih kultura“. Rušdi je i dalje na čelu ovog festivala čiji su učesnici bili najpoznatiji savremeni svetski pisci. Festival Glasovi sveta posvećen je „širokom spektru aktuelnih društvenih i političkih pitanja važnih za pisce i umetnike širom sveta“.

Tokom gotovo nedelju dana programa koji se održavaju na različitim tačkama Njujorka festival Glasovi sveta okupiće više od 150 pisaca, teoretičara, kritičara i drugih intelektualaca iz tridesetak zemalja. Među učesnicima festivala nalaze se i Salman Rušdi, Đerđ Konrad, Noam Čomski, Adam Mihnjik, Adonis, Lin Ulman, Adonis, Timoti Garton Eš, Kolm Tojbin, Džudit Batler, Ivan Klima, Martin Amis, Pol Maldun, Sjon i mnogi drugi.

U središtu ovogodišnjeg, desetog po redu festivala jeste tema Na ivici koja je, prema rečima organizatora, „inspirisana dugogodišnjim praksama pozvanih autora koji su preuzimali umetničke i političke rizike, imajući hrabrosti da javno istupe, stavljajući na kocku društvene uloge, vlastite karijere, a ponekad i živote da bi progovorili protiv statusa quo“.

Govoreći o ovogodišnjoj temi, direktor festivala Glasovi sveta Laslo Jakab Orsos podsetio je da je Kurt Vonegat svojevremeno rekao da je želeo da se približi ivici koliko je to moguće a da se ne padne s nje, jer je samo iz te perspektive mogao da vidi stvari koje nije mogao da sagleda iz centra.

Nastojeći da predstave program u rasponu od književnosti do politike, od poezije do filozofije, festival Glasovi sveta, pored čitanja i razgovora o savremenoj književnosti, obuhvatiće i čitav niz aktuelnih pitanja kao što su sloboda izražavanja, globalni nadzor u 21. veku, upotreba hrane kao političkog oružja, uloga intelektualne javnosti danas, nelegalno špijuniranje ili obeležavanje 25 godina od pada Berlinskog zida.

Posle održavanja festivala Glasovi sveta biće objavljena antologija tekstova učesnika ovogodišnjeg festivala. Vladimir Tasić biće predstavljen odlomkom iz romana Oproštajni dar, čije je novo izdanje nedavno objavljeno u Arhipelagu, dok će Igor Štiks biti predstavljen odlomkom iz romana Elijahova stolica po kome je nastala i istoimena predstava u JDP.

Izvor: Arhipelag


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Allex Mandusich

Andjelko "Big Jake Alex" Mandusich is a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and was one of the greatest Serbian-American heroes of World War I.

He was born on July 13th, 1887 at Sar Planina, Serbia. In 1905, at the age of 18, he immigrated to America.

When the US entered World War I, Mandusich immediately enrolled himself in the Army. During the battle in Amiens region in France in August of 1918, Jake, now a corporal, advanced his men at Chipilly Ridge; there were many casualties and in the heat of the battle Alex realized that all officers had been hit and that he was now the leader of his platoon. His men were pinned down by machine gunfire from a German nest thirty yards away. Under intense fire Manudsich made his way to the nest alone; he pulled out his bayonet and attacked..

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The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.