LITERATURE, TRUTH AND CENSORSHIP

Text topic: Literature and Truth

Text author: Жељко Миловановић

The paper deals with the relationship between literature and truth, taking as a point of departure an assumption that the relationship is to a great extent determined by the current interest of the public in certain work, interest of literary critics and marketing promotion. The example of the 2013 list of bestsellers shows an extent to which a self-presented truth of a work has an impact on the interest of the public, as well as to what extent the expectations as to the truthfulness shape works of literature. In the conclusion of the paper a view is taken that the truth assumes upon itself a kind of a role both of censorship and auto-censorship of the work that is being written.