Ksenija Popović closed Poet's Square

With the performance of Ksenija Popović and the presentation of her book "Lullaby for No Man's Wolf" at the Poet's Square in Budva, the literary program of this year's Grad Teatar festival ended.

Literary critic and theorist Bozena Jelušić spoke with Ksenija Popović. Remembering the words of Danilo Kiš that childhood is, in fact, a very unhappy period of almost every person's life, Jelušić led the audience with the author through a difficult, traumatic story for children who grow up without families, without real parental love, children in homes, prejudices of the environment, a society that , unfortunately, still does not show adequate care towards those who need such attention the most...

However, the action of the novel, as Jelušić said, is set in a home for neglected children that can be American or European, which is not localized, and can be anywhere, which means that the author did not insist on a direct recognition of Cma Gora, but on the phenomenon of the home itself and the relationship with the home child, which makes this story, which has social engagement, universal.

I'm not at all sure that the novel takes place somewhere in Europe, I don't even know where this story is set, it's certainly not in Montenegro, sometimes it looks like the north of Europe, sometimes America and the American system, and that when it comes to basketball , some other things in the novel are more European, I combined many things there, because I really wanted it to be "everywhere and nowhere".

I think that every environment, small or large, can be recognized in "Nobody's Wolf", and that was my goal, said Ksenija Popović, who also spoke about numerous private experiences with children from homes, social services, people's attitude towards to "nobody's children", and how much the state and society, in fact, make these children remain on the margins.