Je mogoče, da se je Žižek podal na pota literature in napisal dramo? Ne, ni mogoče. Sam pravi, da pri tej igri o Antigoni nikakor ne gre za umetniško delo, da nima nobene literarne ambicije, temveč da gre za etično-politično vajo, ki si za model jemlje Brechtove učne komade. Drama vzame za osnovo Sofoklejevo Antigono in znotraj te strukture izpostavi tri možne izteke: prvega, Sofoklejevega, v katerem Kreon doseže svoje, vendar za strašno ceno, ki ugonobi tudi njega, drugega, v katerem zmaga Antigona, a tudi on za strašno ceno in s tragičnimi posledicami, in tretjega, v katerem Zbor prevzame oblast in kaznuje tako Kreona kot Antigono. Drama prepušča gledalcu, da premotri te možnosti in se odloči sam. Knjiga poleg besedila drame prinaša še Žižkov uvod, v katerem ta na novo poantira interpretacijo Antigone in jo sooča za drugimi branji. Žižkova Antigona bo premierno uprizorjena v HNK v Zagrebu naslednje leto, po vsem svetu pa je ogromno zanimanja za nadaljnje uprizoritve.
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of SFR Yugoslavia). He received a Doctor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Ljubljana and studied psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII with Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party Liberal Democracy of Slovenia for Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia (an auxiliary institution, abolished in 1992). Since 2005, Žižek has been a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Žižek is well known for his use of the works of 20th century French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in a new reading of popular culture. He writes on many topics including the Iraq War, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, multiculturalism, post-marxism, David Lynch, and Alfred Hitchcock. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País he jokingly described himself as an "orthodox Lacanian Stalinist". In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! he described himself as a "Marxist" and a "Communist."
