Dialogues about dialogues bring writers’ texts on the topic of a “dialogue”, and at the same time hold a dialogue with the author of this project.

The coronavirus pandemic has also spawned some positive changes, since in the absence of various contents we could focus on the “dialogue”. In that period I started, after a short break, to do interviews intensively for the journals Vijenac, Moderna vremena, Kontura, Petnaest dana, etc. These „encounters“, as philosopher Martin Buber calls them, have enriched me and reminded me about what I, as an author and art historian, consider the essence of creativity – dialogue and communication. A dialogue precedes a creative process, it follows the process while it lasts, and it continues a creative process after an artwork is finished – by the interpretations of experts and later in the direct contact with the audience. The term “dialogue” can be often heard in different contexts and professions, for instance the terms “the dialogical dimension of the work of art”, “dialogical process”, “the works establish a dialogue with each other”, but also in the political discourse “an attempt to establish a dialogue with…”, and the term itself is often exposed to various manipulations. However, in literature, a dialogue is directly incorporated in a literary work as a “material” which builds its structure, and is manifested in different manners in different literary works – in dramas it is direct and inevitable, in novels it can or cannot be used, in poetry it has a special position since poetry itself is a dialogue with the surrounding world – without a dialogue it is not possible to create an atmosphere for the creation of a poem. Also, a number of philosophical works have been written in the form of a dialogue.

In this section, in cooperation with different men and women writers, different aspects of a dialogue within and beyond literature will be questioned.

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