The novel "Vajar" by Svetozar Savić was presented on Wednesday evening in the City Bookstore in Podgorica, as part of the seventh Winter Book Fair - Booka 2015.
Before telling the audience something more about the book, the professor of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, Dr. Aleksandar Jerkov, asked the author to read a passage from the novel.
"Mr. Savić, quietly and decently, aside from this whole set, for which there would be more difficult words than I used, writes his books, and for me this is the second work of his that I have become familiar with and that I have studied. "This is a mature and well-written novel, which knows how to control itself, and that is perhaps its best feature," he said.
"If Mr. Savić had opened the book to another page, he would also have read very calm and safely written lines, filled with gentle narration. And on one side or the other, you could walk through time from antiquity, through Byzantium, the past of our grandfathers, to the socialist and post-socialist reality, and time would change a little, but the security and calmness with which he builds his literary world would not change. Jerkov concluded.
He also pointed out an interesting coincidence, related to the main character who bears his last name.
"Mine are from Backa and I know that in Belgrade they have three Jerkov families, that in Banat there are several Jerkovs who are not related to me, but that in Backa everyone who bears that surname must be my relative. I open Savić's book and on the first page I stumble upon the main character named Joko Jerkov. And then I think 'Is this writer normal, is he screwing me'? What kind of Jerkov in the middle of Montenegro?", he jokingly told.
After Jerkovo, Svetozar Savić also addressed the audience. "I can hardly analyze this novel and reduce it to the logic of life and something that in itself is a thin reflection of life. The interpretation of the work by the author reminds me of a sleepwalker trying to follow his steps, and it is also incomplete, first of all, because of the time in which it is interpreted," he said.
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