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VIA ROMANA ENGLESKI – Vuk Drašković (in english language)
U romanu Vuka Draškovića, simboličnog naslova “via Romana”, glavni junak doktor Damjan Čavkakroz svoju sudbinu opisuje skoro četiri veka srpskih posrtanja, od 1602. do današnjeg dana. Taj veliki Carski put je najbolji svedok vekovnih patnji , janjičarstva, raskola, ubistava, samoubistava, begova i podanika, pobednika i pobeđenih, četnika, partizana, ustaša, komunista, svakovrsnih zabluda, krvavih osveta,slepih obožavanja i pobuna, pohlepe, odmetništva, snova i surove stvarnosti, zapleta i loših raspleta, naših pojedinačnih i kolektivnih drama.
Osnova romana je potresna ispovest dvojice janjičara, iz istog sela, iz iste kuće, ali vekovima udaljenih. Jedan obožava sultana Osmana i služi mu, a drugi bogotvori svog sultana i carstvo zvano Titova Jugoslavija.
english translation Timothy Byford
Vuk Draskovic is an excepitonal personality in the literary and in the world of politics. He was a writer with the most bestsellers in former Yugoslavia. His fame grew with novels “Knife”, “Judge”, and “Russian consul”, all transleted to English, French, Russian and numerous other languages. Because of his novel “Knife, tragic fresco (image) of the genocide over the Serbian people in the Second World War, this writer was made into the ‘national enemy number one’.At the beggining of 1990 writer Vuk Draskovic founded a political party “serbian Renewal Movement” that becomes a leading force of the resistance to the bloody war in YU, ethnic cleansing, crimes and massacres, and orchestrated hatred.Th Regime of the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic arrested Vuk Draskovic and tortured him in jail twice, an in 1999 and in 2000. secret police organized two attempts on his life, that he by some miracle survived.After democratic and pro European forces finnaly won, Draskovic was a Minister of Foreign Affairs for three years. He published another novel “Night of the General” in 1994, and in 2007 a book titled “Target”, politicaly literal diary about Yugoslavia and the calamity that it went trough, Serbia and his personal torment in the last decade of the twentieth century. Novel “Doctor Aron”was released in 2009. This bestseller has already been translated in Spanish.In 2012 Draskovic published a new novel “Via Romana” (again a bestseller)
