You would expect a man who had been condemned to a total of nine years imprisonment because of his books and articles to be wary of journalists, but Milovan Djilas readily granted me two interviews, the first in 1979 and the second in 1984, eleven years before his death. In the first, when he was sixty-eight, he said he was a resigned old man, but his parting words in the second interview five years later showed he still had longings. They were linked to his boyhood in Montenegro and the resources which enabled him to oppose the Communist Party even…