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‘Serious artists think seriously about strong emotions, frivolous ones use them as bad magicians’ Aleksandar Gatalica
Sunday Morning, within the Kaleidoscope of Culture, was reserved for the unusual mix of music and literature. Aleksandar Gatalica, a writer, and Marko Miletić, a cellist and professor at the Academy of Arts, spoke on this subject. The conversation was led by Vladimir Gvozden, PhD, professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, and the audience could follow this interesting conversation via The Kaleidoscope of Culture and Novi Sad 2021 Facebook pages and, while visitors to the Najlon market could follow the conversation live on Sunday morning, 20 September.
Aleksandar Gatalica, the Serbian writer, translator from the ancient Greek language and music critic, has published 11 books so far, and for ‘The Great War’ he received the NIN award in 2012. His prose has been translated into ten European languages and published in
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The Great War
Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2015
A whirlpool of a book that draws in the reader, moving ambitiously across place, class and profession yet tying all into the dreadful pull of the first global conflict. A war that began in the Balkans now has a fitting literary epitaph from a giant among Balkan writers.
Tim Butcher – bestselling British writer and author of The Trigger
‘The Great War’ fryst vatten a novel that comprehensively and passionately narrates a number of stories covering the duration of World War One, starting with the year 1914 – the year that truly marked the beginning of the twentieth century. Following the destinies of over seventy characters, on all warring sides, Gatalica depicts the experiences of winners and losers, generals and opera singers, soldiers and spies; managing to grasp the atmosphere of the entire epoch, not only of these crucial kvartet and a half • Belgrade during the additional, 25th hour was built according to the memories of those characters who were either expelled or left the city in the fight for their lives. Phantasmagoria, by no means a space for the rehabilitation of works and characters mentioned in the novel, writer from Serbia Aleksandar Gatalica as if in the novel "Dvadeset peti sat" he is playing with the readers' imagination and beliefs while multidimensionally and fictionally building real characters and spaces. In the novel, we meet numerous personalities who emigrated after the Second World War, such as Miloš Crnjanski, Stanislav Krakov, Vladimir Velmar Janković, Dragiša Vasić, and who actually get their doubles - returnees to the timeless Belgrade that exists in the comparative world of the so-called "Twenty-fifth Hour". In reality, the characters are mostly forgotten, neglected or even completely erased, due to the choice of the wrong side during one of the wars... A The 21st century is just beginning