A Chronicle of Upheaval "Within the post-Yugoslav columnist and journalistic landscape, Muharem Bazdulj is a figure without precedent and counterpart, perhaps the only author, who appeared after the breakup of Yugoslavia, and who is widely recognizable throughout the area where Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian and Serbian languages are written and spoken.
The commentator who wrote for Dane and Oslobođenje, for Monitor and Zarez, for Vreme and Reporter, today writes for some other media, just as penetratingly, briskly and provocatively. The Chronicle of Upheaval is a collection of his columns from the Upheaval portal, a chronologically arranged collection of texts published in the interval from June 2020 to February 2022. The turbulent epoch between the escalation of the Covid-19 pandemic and the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war is reflected effectively and convincingly in Bazdul's top-notch publicist prose. The reader of this book will find in it a skillfully shaped articulation of their own political and social history. According to one American critic, Bazdulj looks further with his telescope than most writers dare to try.
As in the chorus of the famous song from the 1980s, If you imagine life/to the rhythm of dance music/there will be a change in your head/and you will believe that there is hope, so the readers of Bazdul's comments also experience a reversal of opinion. Because Bazdulj makes you think better, clearer and more honestly."
- Branko Milanović
