Stanislav Vinaver

Three Forsaken Poets: Significant Absences in Balkan Modernism

“…In the years following WWII, as Svetlana Slapšak writes, Vinaver published under the new regime in samizdat form, 'sold discreetly in student clubs and in cafés around the Faculty of Philosophy and Philology in Belgrade', and that he 'parodied the new ideology without constraints, destroying the new authorities and new values'. 20 Neither Slapšak nor Konstantinović offer an explicit discussion of the cultural context of Vinaver's avant-garde poetics, nor of his uncomfortable position as an assimilated Jew who seems to have remained an outsider among the Serbs -either anti-or philo-Semitic. The subject is also absent in two other recent discussions of Vinaver's work.…”