Ilija Šaula
Ilija Šaula approaches literature as a space of inner truth, a meeting point where myth, philosophy, and the modern individual confront one another without disguise. His prose and essays emerge from a deep inquiry into meaning, the limits of freedom, and the shadows a person must face within themselves. Nothing in his writing is superficial: every sentence is a trace of a search, every motif a bridge between tradition and the future. Šaula builds a hybrid style that blends lyrical precision, intellectual density, and emotional honesty, creating texts that invite the reader into a quiet but transformative inner dialogue.
PAIN
By Ilija Saula
Life is relentless toward us, just as love is relentless toward it. Experience is an artist — a painter and a sculptor — shaping and revealing every form of life in its true light and expression. Experience is an inheritance no one puts in a will, though it should stand at the very top.
Franz Kafka
By Ilija Saula
Franz Kafka occupies a place in European literature that cannot be reduced to biography, historical context, or literary movement. His name has become a metaphor—almost a self-contained category of thought, a word that evokes a condition, an atmosphere, an inner landscape of an era. Few writers have turned their surname into an adjective, and even fewer are read as prophecy: a mirror held up to what is still arriving. Kafka is one of them. His prose is not only literature; it is a way of seeing reality from the inside.
A MODEL OF GENIUS: THE POLISH CASE
By Ilija Šaula
There exists within European literature a quiet paradox: the closer a nation has come to disappearance, the closer its language has come to eternity. It is within this paradox that Polish poetry is formed—not as an aesthetic choice, but as an ontological necessity.
From Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, to Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska, the poet in Poland has never been merely an individual. He or she has been a point of intersection—where history and conscience, language and silence, suffering and meaning converge. It is within this crossing that what we call genius emerges, though at its core it is a product of pressure.
MAYBE HUMANITY WILL REMEMBER ITSELF
By Ilija Šaula
As I think about the future awaiting our descendants, I wonder what the world will look like five hundred years from now. Not because I wish to play the prophet, but because I feel the same curiosity our ancestors must have felt when they gazed into the unknown. From their hills and shores, they sensed new worlds ahead, just as we today sense a world that will be born from our own time.
“A SHORT THEORY OF EVERYTHING” – A PROVOCATION AND A SHIFT
(*Saša Radonjić – A Short Theory of Everything (novel, SF anti‑adventure) – SOLARIS, Novi Sad, 2025)
By Ilija Šaula
There are books you read, books you interpret, and books that happen to you. A Short Theory of Everything by Saša Radonjić belongs to this third category. It is not merely a novel, but a process — a space in which the author, the character, the reader, and the residue between them ...
Madness – The Highest Form of Reason
By Ilija Šaula
“Madness” is one of those words that have lost their depth over time. We defend it unconsciously, as if trying to keep it from becoming a shadow of existence rather than a potential for the expansion of life – or, to put it more boldly, of character. Today we use it mostly as a warning, a diagnosis, a label for anything that deviates from what we have grown accustomed to calling normal. Yet the word once meant something far greater: a step beyond, an act of courage, an above-average sensitivity, an ability to perceive what most people overlook. Madness was a sign that a person lived on a higher frequency, that their mind was awake enough to exceed the limits of the ordinary.
DIALOGUE WITH THE AUTHOR
By Ilija Šaula
When I open a book, it feels as though I am unlocking the door to a hidden room. I am not afraid of meeting the shadows of the past, because I know the author is waiting there, alive, present, ready to speak. His words ignite my curiosity, and in that moment, I feel the need for dialogue: a quiet exchange in which truth is born.
Let Us Return a Voice to a World That Is Losing It
By Ilija Saula
In an era that celebrates superficiality, where clicks and virality measure the world, one quiet question pierces through the noise: Is there still space for thought? For freedom? For a truth not bartered away in the clearance sale of attention.
RUSSIA AS A GUARANTOR OF THE EUROPEAN UNION’S SURVIVAL
EUROPE IN THE AGE OF NEW MULTIPOLARITY
By Ilija Saula
A Provocative Thesis with Deep Strategic Roots
The idea that Russia would not allow the European Union to collapse may sound provocative at first glance, even counterintuitive in a time when Moscow and Brussels appear locked in irreconcilable opposition.
THE GOURD OF HUMANITY HAS CRACKED
By Ilija Šaula
SCENES FROM SAN FRANCISCO AS A WARNING TO THE WORLD
There is an old saying used to describe a point of no return: “the gourd has cracked.” We usually apply it to broken friendships or political alliances. But standing today on the streets of San Francisco, a city once synonymous with the gold rush and the Eldorado of freedom, one cannot escape the feeling that something far more profound has cracked here: the fundamental part of our shared humanity.
