Translations: "Other Colors" and "Zero"

Two great literary novelties for lovers of the good written word arrive from Belgrade's "Geopoetika". These are: "Druge boje", a book of essays and one story by the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and the novel "Zero" by the famous French writer and mathematician Deni Geđ.

The book "Druge boje" (translated by Mirjana Marinković) by Orhan Pamuk contains the writer's essays about life in general, writers and their books, Pamuk's own books, politics, various civil problems, art, cities, various civilizations.

There is also an interview that Pamuk gave to the newspaper "Paris Review", the stories "Looking through the Window" and "My Father's Suitcase", the speech given at the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.

The sum of these texts is the supreme value of this book: a rich and complete picture of the writer and his incorruptible devotion to literature.

These texts were written in the last three decades alongside fiction. Some texts are accompanied by drawings drawn by Pamuk's hand. "Other colors", as noted by the writer Vladislav Bajac, present Pamuk as a lively, funny, witty, but at the same time very serious, thoughtful observer of the world and his own life.

Here, Pamuk may have opened up more than he planned: the texts about smoking, his relationship with his daughter or obsessive loneliness show him in a hitherto unknown light. When these more intimate articles are connected with texts about the so-called books of his life, reading, analysis of politics in Turkey and Europe, and then with trips to other cities and civilizations, one gets a book of self-examination and a new (auto)biography of a very perceptive man who notices everything around him equally nuanced, whether he looks at the world with from your window or from the plane.

The sum of these texts is the supreme value of this book: a rich and complete picture of the writer and his incorruptible devotion to literature.

He received numerous Turkish and international literary awards for his works

Ferit Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952. He studied architecture in Istanbul, but in 1976 he graduated from the Journalism Institute of Istanbul University. He actively devoted himself to writing in 1974.

He published his first novel "Dževdet-bey and his sons" in 1982. Then followed: "Silent House", "White Fortress", "New Life", "My Name is Red", "Black Book", "Snow", "Museum of Innocence" ” and “Istanbul: memories and the city”.

For his works, he received numerous Turkish and international literary awards, among which the most important awards are IMPAC Dublin, Prix Médicis étranger, the Peace Prize of the Booksellers of Germany and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. Orhan Pamuk's books have been translated into over forty languages ​​and have sold millions of copies.

The Making of Modern Mathematics

"Zero" by Denia Gedja is a historical novel about the creation of modern mathematics that covers five thousand years of human civilization. The plot of the novel "Zero" begins with the events in wartime Iraq in 2003.

When the Void expands from the character of the heroine to the universal plane, we get a book that depicts five thousand years

From the beginning, the mathematical zero is in the background - the main character is Aemer, that is, her incarnation in five different times: in the present time, she is an archaeologist in Iraq, and in the past, a priestess of the goddess of love, a prostitute, a dream reader, a thief and a slave.

Her five lives, full of tense life scenes, move through the space of Mesopotamia, Uruk, Ur, Babylon, Baghdad and Iraq. Although the novel is divided into separate units, they all tell a common story about a woman who is unable to fulfill the Absence.

He published several works, including the novels "Measuring the World: Meridian", "Scientific Revolution", "Empire of Numbers"

When the Void expands from the character of the heroine to the universal plane, we get a book that depicts five thousand years of man's symbolic representation of the Void. The translator of the book is Ivana Mislirlić-Bigard.

Deni Geđ (1940–2010) French mathematician, writer, screenwriter and professor of history of science and epistemology at the University of Paris VIII taught mathematics and the history of mathematics, and at the Department of Film Arts - filmmaking and romance science.

He was the editor-in-chief for mathematics in the Larus Encyclopedia and the author of the Mathematical Chronicle in the Liberasion newspaper. Geđ is the author of the famous international hit novel about the history and geography of mathematics - "The Parrot's Theorem".

He published several works, including the novels "Measuring the World: Meridian", "Scientific Revolution", "Empire of Numbers", "Arbitrariness is no longer worth anything", "Berenice's hair".