Collected Works:

FIRST DAY

ESSAY ON GOD

POLITICS, BREAD AND BOOKS

PHILOSOPHY AND BELIEF

FIFTY YEARS TO GOD

THE PATTERN AND KANT

THE KISS

THE STORY ABOUT FATHER AND FATHERLAND

THE LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Milan Nesic

Through Socialism to War

When political circumstances finally permitted (1991), all until then written books by Milan Nesic were published in one four-volume book under the title: THROUGH SOCIALISM TO GOD. The title was symbolic of how we suffered under socialism and how each pursued his or her own hopes and beliefs, backwards through socialism to the older values and to parliamentarian government. THROUGH SOCIALISM TO WAR (1992) is not a new book either, but consists of thirteen fragments from all four books, selected by the author and presented as a collection of tales in five parts, each with its own heading. It is obvious that it is also a symbolic title.

A Man and the Center of the World

The writer would like that his books help people finally understand where is the line between the noble human desire to survive in a dignified way, to offer one's own meaning and one's own role, and, in the contrary, from which begin imposition and violence. The tragic experience of one party communistic socialism is still not quite understood. The point is not that it is only a wrong idea and so the wrong force with it! But when ever a man puts himself (or his idea) in the center of all (that is) happening (in) the world, forgetting that he cannot know about the world unless he heard it, unless he asked the people — just that is the moment when violence starts. The proof of that is also the problematic war in Iraq. It is not only something done by a president who could be removed from his post by impeachment. It is a matter of people themselves, common man and his understanding of everyday circumstances, so as the writer stressed in his radio-interview in November 1993. For this reason, for example, he has taken a paraphrase from the story RESPECT AND AWE as the motto of the whole book THE PATTERN AND KANT  (No 6 of collected works, first edition 1996):

Mutual esteem, respect and consideration resolve these things, or should the conflict of two rights mean war?

Milan Nešić

Was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1939, where he still lives. He graduated as an electrical engineer (1963) and was employed for some time on the regulation of d.c. motor speed on machine tools. He has published professional articles in Automatika magazine but now works primarily as a private teacher of mathematics. He writes in his native language, Serbo-Croatian, but also speaks German and reads English. As an independent writer he succeeded in publishing his collected works believing in principles that:

a) Truth and art cannot be reserved only for scientists and artists but primarily for good businessmen.

b) Religion and moral do not belong only to priests and preachers but primarily to good businessmen again.

These are the reasons why the sponsor of collected works is a firm, INFORMATIKA a.d, which also has the motto truth and art, religion and moral, a firm which cooperates successfully with many world known firms (as, for example, Microsoft, DELL, UNISYS, Cisco) according to the mentioned principles. And this is the reason why the same firm sponsored not only Milan Nesic but also other writers like, for example, Zoran Zivkovic.

From Reviews:

Novel of sincerity. Novel on invincibility of man's everlasting hungers for life, its beauties and contradictions. (Dr Tode Colak about FIRST DAYS, 1974)

The book offers a learning of many things to the reader having less knowledge, an encouragement for contemplation to the reader having more knowledge. Very complex scientific problems are treated in an extremely interesting way. (Dr Zivomir Petronijevic about ESSAY ON GOD, 1976)

Science cannot answer, not the science. ESSAY ON GOD contains several interesting anecdotes. The writing is clear and entertaining and contains several thought-provoking ideas. (Dr Barbara Bauer)

 The whole system of tricks and compulsions in society has been revealed. The way author still succeeds to keep faith in the sense of creativity and future is amazing. It seems as if his philosophical eye reveals: we have been suffering, but history knows even greater violence. (Mr Miroslav Kostic about POLITICS, BREAD AND BOOKS, 1982.)

How was it possible, in the days of general unimindedness, to remain with clear mind and to write such a good book? (Dr Vladimir Goati about POLITICS, BREAD AND BOOKS).

In "Prelude" author talks about aunt's visit and about peeling potatoes in order to point out that daily common events and misunderstandings are background for expressing different philosophical attitudes. In that way he provokes interest with readers for philosophy as for something each man is concerned with. (Dr Gajo Petrovic about PHILOSOPHY AND BELIEF, 1984.)

Universal importance of this book is contained in its determination to be extremely simple in its philosophical dramaturgy (therefore very serious), thus extremely deep (therefore very pure) in its philosophical orientation. (Dr Bosko Tomasevic about PHILOSOPHY AND BELIEF)

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Here is a book so authentic and on such a high masterly level that it could have been created only beyond all literary streams and accepted trends. It should be added, however, that this historical period has produced such writers. It seems to be a global phenomenon, so that Poles have Czeslaw Milosz and THE CAPTIVE MIND, Russians Alexander Zinoviev and ENTHUSIASM OF OUR YOUTH, and we now have Milan Nesic and Fifty Years to War. (Dr Ivan Sop, 1993)

Intimate history as a document for understanding essence of the man. (Snezana Klasovic-Djordjevic about THE PATTERN AND KANT, 1996)

My short account on THE KISS opens with a literary association, a story by William Saroyan. This is the association I think would be worth linking with a note by one of the greatest writers of all times — Dostoyevsky — the note that we cannot infinitely love another being, but why? (Vitomir Teofilovic, 1997)

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Nesic persists in status of independent writer outside the reserved actual literary critics finding his own way to readers. That is the heavier way, but if writer and his works surpass destiny and the manner of engaged critics, it is worth going this way. (Radmilo Smakic regarding THE STORY ABOUT FATHER AND FATHERLAND, 2001)

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