A short life of a severed head

The book of stories "The Short Life of a Severed Head" by a Montenegrin artist Dimitrija Popović it was presented at the beginning of the week in Zagreb, in the large exhibition hall of the "Klovićevi dvori" gallery.

This is Popović's seventh fiction book, published in the "Hrvatski pisci" library, published by "Mozaik knjiga" from Zagreb, and contains four stories: "Bastard", "The Short Life of a Severed Head", "Bokokotor's Faith Icon" and "Happy New Year ". Editor Hana Vunic she highlighted the psychological characterization of the characters from all four stories, which, although thematically different, form a coherent literary entity.

Critic Bojana Radović she pointed out that she had never read a more beautiful description of the Bay of Kotor than in Popović's book, and she also spoke about the specifics of the renowned author's literary process.

Acting Champion of the Croatian National Theatre Dragan Despot interpreted selected passages from the title story, and as part of the promotion, Dimitri Popović's performance "Seeds of Evil" was performed with a fake pregnant woman embodied by a model Iva Loparić-Contact.

To a large audience, Popović explained the meaning of the performance.

"The knife stuck in the book that is placed on the stomach of a pregnant woman represents a symbolic stab of harsh and raw reality in the living fabric of literature in which evil is conceived and thus seems to point to good as a positive category of the fundamental value of humanism," he explained.