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SARAJEVO, December 26 (FENA) - Bosnian actor and playwright Josip Pejaković says his new book 'The Dayton Misunderstanding' is as serious as his monodramas and texts.
"These are social topics that testify to the time in which I lived. These are documents that will probably only live on with my disappearance, and remain with a sign that I did not write about people as they are, but as they should be. Unfortunately, they didn't listen to me, that's why we have a situation like this," Pejaković emphasized in an interview with FENA.
With this book and other works, he points out the academic silence of these areas, not only in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but as a regional problem.
"I was waiting for one of those people, much smarter than me, to show up and unravel the situation. They didn't do it because they mostly deal with the consequences, none of them dealt with the causes. And that's exactly what I've been doing since day one. Then the normal consequences we have as this Dayton misunderstanding can be treated as the cause of all the consequences that will happen later so we will understand that what happened between 1992 and 1995 is nothing in relation to what has been happening since 1995 to the present day. There is, I would say, the possible quality of all my works, especially the last one called 'The Dayton Misunderstanding'," he emphasized.
And as Pejaković wrote in the book 'The Dayton Misunderstanding', 'I don't have time to wait for anyone anymore and that's why I'm writing'.
"I was given that opportunity back in 1975, when I wrote 'Who can tell me that there is no Bosnia'. I have not stopped writing about this topic until today. And as long as I breathe this Bosnian air, I will fight for Bosnia with my deeds because I love it in spite of all those who try to destroy it!," he wrote in his new book, published by Art Rabic, and promoted on Winter Book Salon.
He says that initially there were several suggestions for the title of that book, but in the end they chose 'The Dayton Misunderstanding'.
"I continue to talk about the consequences caused by the Dayton misunderstanding or agreement, and these are primarily those people who have built their efforts, skills and love into the foundations of this city (Sarajevo)," he said.
Asked about the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pejaković said that "a state conceived in this way, with such antagonism, cannot exist."
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