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Sodobnost 6/2008

6/2008

Uvodnik

Leading article

Gabriel Zaid

Zakaj članom žirij ni treba brati knjig

Why members of juries don't have to read books

Mnenja, izkušnje, vizije

Opinions, experiences, visions

Boštjan Dvořak

Komu se smeji Kvadriga?

At whom is Quadriga laughing?

Pogovori s sodobniki

Talking to contemporaries

Meta Kušar z Ireno Novak Popov

Meta Kušar with Irena Novak Popov

Estetika na Slovenskem, 4

Aesthetics in Slovenia, 4

Ješa Denegri

Kritične ideje Tomaža Brejca o modernizmu

Tomaž Brejc's critical views on moderism

Or Ettlinger

Spogledovanje s piedestalom (Pogled tujca na Jožeta Plečnika)

Flirting with piedestal (A foreigner's view on Jože Plečnik)

Sodobna slovenska poezija: štiri slovenske pesnice

Contemporary Slovenian poetry: four Slovenian woman poets

Klarisa Jovanović

Ti malani pildi

These little pics

Barbara Pogačnik

Elementi: Rdeča voda

The elements: Red water

Miljana Cunta

Čez črto

Across the line

Jelena Lasan

Pesništvo, ta ganljivi izum

Poetry, this touching invention

Sodobna slovenska proza

Contemporary Slovenian prose

Jasmin B. Frelih

Literadrom

Sodobni slovenski esej

Contemporary Slovenian essay

Irena Štusej

Ostanite suhe med nalivi

Keep dry during downpours

Alternativna misel

Alternative thought

Igor Grdina

Knjiga marginalij

The book of marginalia

Kritika - knjige

Book reviews

Franjo Frančič

Izgubljeni jutri

The lost tomorrow (reviewed by Matej Bogataj)

Miha Pintarič

Nugae (reviewed by Lucija Stepančič)

Andrej Hočevar

Pesmi o koscih in podobnostih

Poems about pieces and similarities (reviewed by Milan Vincetič)

Mea Valens

Uglašena

In tune (reviewed by Špela Brecelj)

Gledališki dnevnik

Theatre diary

Vesna Jurca Tadel

O raznih poljubnostih

On arbitrary choices

Jaša Drnovšek

Berlinski zapisi, 2

Notes from Berlin, 2

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The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009

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