The project of the "Stubovi kulture" publishing house has started July 6th 1993 as a primarily literary project, but in the six following years it grew into a project of general culture and historiography. Started in a time not unlike today, during the war in ex-Yugoslavia, a huge inflation, international sanctions and the breakdown of every code of values, the project has since become a publishing house gathering together the leading Yugoslavian authors whose books have been translated  and published in more than 30 countries. Starting with T. S. Eliott's maxim saying that one cannot inherit a tradition, but must create it instead, through hard work, the project of "Stubovi kulture", with its publishing policy, stands for an enterprise of carefully planned "creating of the tradition". With the sentence "Reading is a private affair" on its flag, the whole project is based on the returning to the tradition of private property and civil values. This approach includes the gathering of the finest of the ex-Yugoslavian authors and the most prominent of the European ones, as well as those from the whole world. The Serbian authors of "Stubovi kulture" are practically the only Serbian writers whose works are continually being translated in Europe and Northern America, and through all this time their works have been present in Sarajevo, Zagreb, Split, Ljubljana and Dubrovnik: Radoslav Petkovic, David Albahari, Dusan Kovacevic, Ljubodrag Simovic, Dragan Velikic, Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic, Vladimir Arsenijevic, Mihajlo Pantic, Mileta Prodanovic. Thus building one possible bridge, in the past six years "Stubovi kulture" has published the works of Konrád Gyorgy, Esterházy Péter, Bohumil Hrabal, Patrick Modiano, Paulos Matesis, Katarina Frosenson, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Caroll, L. M. Montgomery, Arthur C. Clarke, Anthony Burgess, Miguel de Unamuno, Robert Menasse, Giovanni Papini, Georges Perec, Bruce Chatwin, Milan Kundera, Gao Xingian, Karel Capek, Arnost Lustig, Andrew Baruch Wachtel, Pierre Manon, Istvan Erkenu, Adam Zagajewski, Robert Olen Butler, Michael Fairbanks and Stace Lindsay, Samuel P. Huntington, Antonio Tabucchi, Mancur Olson…