Published "Herbarium - Šor Ante"

The second volume of the family trilogy written by Liberto Slovinić was recently published

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Recently, the second volume of the family trilogy "Herbarium - Šjor Ante" was published Liberto Slovinić, that is, a well-known Montenegrin artist Slobodan Bobo Slovinić.

The work is based on real people, events and creative fiction, and deals with a respectable old coastal family, over several generations, the description states.

"Two family ancestors Juraj i Ivan more than two centuries ago, they sailed from Postira, from the island of Brač, to the small coastal town of Budva, which, according to legend, was founded by ancient deities before the new era. The brainchild of the book is the school herbarium, which was formed by a priest Don Djuro in his youth, the older brother of the main protagonist of the novel, who possesses historical, cultural and especially aesthetic values. The main character of the book is a distinguished professor and journalist Shor Ante, about which, based on documents, photographs, stories and knowledge, his grandson testifies Sasha, an IT engineer, a contemporary of the New Age", the description emphasizes.

Although he is known to the Montenegrin and European professional public and art lovers as an architect and artist, Slovinić is also a publicist, and last year he published the first volume of this trilogy "Herbarium 1899 - Don Đuro". Earlier, he told "Vijesta" that for a long time he had the desire and idea to write a brochure about his father Šjor Anto (1900-1970), a professor, journalist, secretary of the Registry of Emigrants and the first head of protocol of the state of Montenegro, as a thank you to his ancestors, and to remind descendants, especially children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren

"I made a factual, dry brochure about Father Šjor Anto. However, when, quite by chance, I came into possession of the school herbarium from the 19th century of my uncle Don Juraj, which he made as a student at the age of 12, completely new horizons opened up for me. My uncle's herbarium, from 1899, bewitched me with its beauty, archaism, documentation and historical value. It is an authentic document from that time, a document of my relative, which carries with it a handful of exceptional stimulating associations. The herbarium inspired me to finally move into the realm of writing and literature. I started the realization of my own project: The Family Trilogy," said Slovinić at the time.

The third volume, which will be called "Pitore Liberto", is also being prepared.

"The great aesthete and visualist replaced the brush with a pen, the motif was already present and evident, colors, values ​​and nuances were replaced by letters, words, phrases and sentence structures", revealed Slovinić and added that writing is emotional for him. identical with painting.

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