Presentation of a five-volume collection of memoir, epistolary and diary prose Borislav Pekić, and under the title "Life on Ice", the National Library of Budva is celebrating "Book Night", a program organized on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day.
The promotion of five books of diary prose by Borislav Pekić, published by the publishing houses Štampar Makarije (Belgrade), the National Library Radosav Ljumović and Obodsko slovo (Podgorica), will be held today at 19 pm, in the lobby of the Academy of Knowledge. Prof. Dr. will speak more about this. Goran Radonjic, with whom he will talk Stanka Rađenović Stanojević.
"Pekić's diaries embody the poetic foundations of his literature and the path to his work. Both from the diaries published during the writer's lifetime and from the diaries that came from the writer's legacy, it is clearly visible that this is a genre that Pekić experiences as preparation for writing, a creative laboratory and an opportunity to fully concentrate, in front of himself, discuss and reexamine the themes and ideas of his future books. To this extent, the diary is for Pekić a majestic form in which sources and facts are reassembled and confronted, poetic ideas that will be incorporated into the book in the making are considered and its thematic pillars on which the entire narrated world will rest," the statement signed by the director emphasizes. Mila Baljevic.
Entire volumes of Pekić's diary legacy are, in fact, unusual histories of the creation of individual writer's books, adds Baljević.
"Let's take, for example, the extensive books Traganje za Zlatnim runom (1997; 2007) or Rađanje Atlantis (1996) in which the author describes in detail, day by day, the creation of his books The Golden Fleece and Atlantis, from collecting material and cross-referencing sources, through autopoietic treatises and discussions, to the fundamental and detailed drafts of his books. Books such as these Pekić's autopoietic diaries practically do not exist in the history of Serbian literature, at least not to that extent and with that kind of poetic clarity and thematic construction," the director states in a statement.
World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated on 23 April and is one of the most popular events in the world under the auspices of UNESCO. The date was chosen symbolically, in honor of Shakespeare and Cervantes, as well as many other great writers who were born or died on this date, and the decision to celebrate World Book and Copyright Day was made at the UNESCO General Conference held in Paris in 1995. UNESCO's goal is to encourage reading and publishing, as well as to protect intellectual property through copyright protection.
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