“This new era is a time of post-truth and post-art.
Truth and art don’t exist anymore because man has been diminished. The artist
today is a clown, an entertainer. I fight against this image, and I would
rather die than become the same. Art is the only religion for me, because at
least while I write I can believe in a truth. This is a hard time. It is when
neither Tolstoy nor Dostoevsky are read. All the conditions exist, except the
most important ones, for man to become a human being.”—Oscar-winning
Serbian-born American screenwriter (Breaking Away), playwright, and
novelist Steve Tesich (1942-1996), interviewed by Dejan Stojanovic, “A Few Moments with Steve Tesich,” Views, April 1992
The image of Steve Tesich accompanying this post was
taken in front of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, 1991, by Marko Rakocevic.
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