Suppressed Works · Lost and Obscure Works
Worlds and Bridges (Svetovi i mostovi)
A three-volume novel about the killing between Serbs and Muslims after the First World War, which Djilas considered his life’s main work, and which has never been published. The Hoover Institution holds both the original Serbo-Croat typescript and an unpublished English translation by Lovett F. Edwards, spread across nine boxes with Djilas’s corrections in his own hand. The man was famous, the book was finished, the translation was done, and it still did not come out: he spent the decades after The New Class either imprisoned or in official isolation, his passport withheld for eighteen years, and the domestic ban on his writing was not lifted until 1988. This is the single strongest holding in the Archive for its own subject. The work is not lost, not suppressed by any order now in force, and not readable by anyone who does not go to Stanford.
- Period
- circa 1971-1977
- Region
- Yugoslavia
- Language
- English
- Rights
- In copyright — do not store. The work has never been published, so the 95-year-from-publication term never began. Under United States law an unpublished work is protected for the life of the author plus seventy years, which for an author who died in 1995 runs to the end of 2065. That is the year this record watches for, and it is a lay reading of the calendar rather than advice. WHO HOLDS THE RIGHTS IS AN OPEN QUESTION, and this record does not pretend otherwise. The finding aid’s terms of access say only "For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives," and Hoover’s copyright policy pushes it straight back: researchers are "responsible for compliance with copyright law," including "identifying the copyright owner," and staff help only where Hoover or Stanford itself holds the copyright. No public record found names an estate, an executor or an agent for Djilas. His son Aleksa Djilas appears in the 1984-1989 publishing correspondence in this collection, which is evidence of involvement and NOT evidence that he holds the rights; the distinction is left standing here rather than closed by a guess.
- Source
- https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0x0nd95v
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