A Hunt for Optimism Nordic Svetislav Basara is one of

Svetislav Basara is one of the major figures of contemporary Serbian literature and is the author of over two dozen novels and short story collections

and depravity—as told from his prison cell

and the elements of our imagination

and is currently an editor at Haifa University Publishing house

A Hunt for Optimism Nordic Svetislav Basara is one ofA Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives,