Abstract
Dobrica Cosic is a Serb and one of the best known novelists in Yugoslavia today. During the second world war he was a political commissar with Tito's Partisans and afterwards served as a politician and leading member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He made his literary reputation with his first novel Daleko le sunce (‘Far Is the Sun’), published in 1951, and since then has published several more novels and stories. His latest novel Moć i strepnje (‘Power and Foreboding’) was banned after publication last year and removed from sale (see INDEX no.2, 1972, p.147).
The present essay was written in the summer of last year and published in the August 1972 issue of the Belgrade philosophical journal Filozofia. For printing this and an editorial on the same subject the journal was subsequently banned (see INDEX nos 3-4, p.126). The text of this English version has been shortened by about two thousand words.