Dejan Đonović, children's poet and actor of the City Theatre, hung out with Nikšić elementary school children during the Autumn Book Fair "Anderva book", which is held in the Nikšić Theater, organized by the "Njegoš" National Library.
Đonović "regaled" the little ones with verses and music, he spoke to them about theater, love, school crushes, the sea and freedom.
The students of "Luka Simonović" and "Jagoš Kontić" elementary schools also had a gift for Đonović - they prepared recitations of his poems.
In the accompanying program for adults, the novel "Four Deaths and One Resurrection of Fyodor Mihailovič" by professor Zoran Živković, the most translated contemporary Serbian writer, whose books have been translated into 20 languages, is presented.
Doctor Tamara Labudović spoke with Živković, who has so far published 24 prose works and eight monographs, and has a total of 210 editions, of which 82 in Serbia and 128 in foreign translations.
The novel, in which Dostoevsky is resurrected by artificial intelligence, contains four episodes whose titles indicate the places where they take place: a park, a dining car, a psychiatric office and a Turkish bath.
Živković, whom the Nikšić audience had the opportunity to hear several times, surprised the audience by reading a chapter from the unpublished book "Psychiatric Clinic".
Moderator Neda Papović, M.Sc., led a literary dialogue with prof. Dr. Sonjom Tomović Šundić, focusing on her dramatic creativity and the most important leitmotif - freedom.
There was also talk of the world as a big sanatorium, of the loss of value, 'of the meaninglessness of culture' as the strongest motives appearing in the dramatic texts of Tomović Šundić: "Job", "Xanthippe", "Drama Veliki Inquisitor", "Drama", "Stavrogin". , "Three plays about Njegoš", "Monodrama Njegoš and Isidora" and "The Candidate".
On the fourth day of the fair, the novel "Unutrašnje more" by Danica Vukićević, the winner of last year's NIN award, was also promoted, and the conversation with her was led by Ksenija Rakočević, M.Sc.
The award-winning novel presents fragments of life through the poet's specific perspective, reexamines the problems of existence from the private to the socio-political level, from the materiality of everyday life to the key internal dramas of individuals in the modern world.
In addition to the aforementioned novel, Vukićević published six books of poetry: "Like a hotel in the wind", "When I heard voices", "Shamanka", "Bow and arrow", "Transition to another species" and "Tall factory chimneys". as well as two prose collections: "On the beaches" and "Život je gorila".
"Who still leads an artistic life. Who talks about the meaning of poetry. It's ridiculous to believe in words, in so-called art. We are only politicians", wrote Vukićević in the novel "Inner Sea".
The "Anderva book" fair, which was held this year under the slogan "Carpe diem, carpe librum", showed that there are still people who lead an artistic life and who believe in words.
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