Laušević died. While it is debated which is his best role, there is also a debate about whether his book "The Year Passes, the Day Never" is the best-selling book in the 21st century in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. It was printed in several hundred thousand copies. Who knows how many people abroad read the pirated pdf version. You will never know how many people read that book more than once and how many people cried.
The book was sold in cellophane. She announced herself and waited for a long time, and at the Old Airport, she first arrived at the stand inside Voli, the one with newspapers, which precedes the cash registers and the stairs leading to the restaurant. I remember the positive shock when I opened the book. It said "Ah, I must", and below the quote a familiar name and an unusual title that is still correct, "Šomi Roganović, thinker from Titograd".
It was and was not a stunt. That was a trick, because the vast majority expected to find a quote from Njegoš or some thought of Dostoevsky or Shakespeare, and Laušević started the book that everyone had been waiting for decades with the minimalist thoughts of Šomi Roganović.
"Ah, I have to" is not something that just has to be done, there is also this soft letter a, which represents a not very voluntary movement. "Ah, I have to" is an expression of nonsense and absurdity, because you don't have to do anything, but still, you can't help but move. There is no shorter slogan in our country, which could open so many debates, which could be graffiti and determine the way of life. You have to go to a funeral or a wedding, sometimes you have to lend a hand to someone who offended you, you have to go to work, you have to work and live. Everything fits into that "Ah, I have to". You don't have to do everything, but this letter a adds magic, even secrecy to the whole story.
I don't have a book with the signature of Žarko Laušević, but I have Laušević's book with the even dearer signature of Šomi Roganović. The big gentleman did not sign as Šomi, but wrote "Dragan Roganović" at the bar of the Berlin cafe in Njegoševa Street. If anyone thought the book's quoting of Shomi was a pose or a stunt, it turns out that the sequel, the second book, also opens with Shomi's new quote. Therefore, there is a secret connection, a great closeness between Laušević and Šomi's thoughts.
I already wrote about the last book by Žarko Laušević, in which Šomi Roganović became a character in his prose. He followed Žarko, sat with him, commented on the events, and found himself on the plane to Dubai. The imaginary exit of Šomi Roganović from the plane and the collision with the hot air in the Emirates is a spectacular scene. Šomi is a companion, a companion, and Laušević was waiting for the "thinker from Titograd" to address him, because his thoughts were insightful, sophisticated and precise.
Upon the news that Laušević was seriously ill and in the hospital, I remembered another quote from the book, the idea of a spirit that does not surrender. There is no such life coach who can give birth to such a sentence ideal for consciousness building: "Just let my legs stretch - I'm like a slingshot!", and below this quote it was written: "Šomi Roganović, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, around 6:15 in the morning." To the vast majority of the citizens of Podgorica, Šomi Roganović looked like a character who shoots some tricks and ideas into the air, that nothing makes sense. But now we see that hundreds of thousands of people are reading Shomi's thoughts, putting together a picture, and that his ideas have found their audience just as he deserved.
The works of Žarko Laušević will be talked about for a long time. We will talk about the right and the wrongs, about a great crime. His roles and acting are rightfully admired by everyone. But his books should be read, again and again. With care, because especially the first book is a great warning, a difficult story about talent and crime and redemption. Let's hope it's a unique story. Apart from Šomi Roganović, there is a lot of Montenegro in that book. Who wants to see, and who wants to know something about themselves. And we all have to!
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