SOURCE: Drakulic, Slavenka, William Phillips, and others. “Bosnia: Guilt by Dissociation? A Discussion with Slavenka Drakulic.” Partisan Review 61, no. 1 (winter 1994): 60-79.

In the following interview, Drakulic discusses the political situation in the former Yugoslavia and possible solutions to the conflicts in the region.

[Phillips]: I'm William Phillips, Editor of Partisan Review. We're glad to have with us tonight Slavenka Drakulic, one of the famous “five witches,” the group of Croatian women writers recently denounced in a nationalist Croatian weekly for their dissident views. I want to introduce Edith Kurzweil, Executive Editor of Partisan Review, who will moderate the discussion and the questions after the talk.

[Kurzweil]: Many of you met Slavenka last year at our conference in Newark [“Intellectuals and Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe,” Partisan Review Fall 1992] and afterwards here in New York. In the meantime she has written yet another wonderful book, called The...