His new novel "Aurora", Balša Brković will present tonight at the Poets' Square in Budva, at 21 p.m. This year's literary program of the Grad Teatar festival continues with the promotion of works published by "Nova knjiga" from Podgorica, and the moderator of the evening is a professor, writer and columnist. Bozena Jelušić.
Book reviewer, Aleksandar Bečanović points out that "Aurora" in many ways represents the pinnacle of the author's novelistic adventure. Recalling his previous novels "Private Gallery", "Paranoia in Podgorica" and "Imelda Markos Beach", Bečanović observes that the motifs, themes, details, which are present in them, have already experienced an exceptional degree of creative realization, and here they are additionally stylized and enriched...
"Which is why 'Aurora' can function, even in retrospect, as a point where the author's main preoccupations brilliantly meet, while the author's recognizable narrative position - which masterfully combines the 'lightness' of storytelling and the seriousness of the points drawn - is even more mature and precise ... Like the previous three novels, 'Aurora' is a novel about Podgorica, about the city that Brković always profiles as a topos that stands on the border between the mythical and the real, real enough to identify its contours and characters, fantastic enough to understand that, nevertheless , behind everything is the writer's description, vision and imagination", wrote Bečanović and added:
"However, unlike 'Private Gallery' and 'Paranoia in Podgorica', which are set in contemporary Podgorica, 'Aurora' looks back at Podgorica from the XNUMXs: that city is revealed in Brković's novel in an unexpected, different way." reveals Bečanović.
Tin Ujević, Radovan Zogović, Milovan Đilas, chess player Bora Kostic, Metropolitan arrive, along with the inevitable originals, the intellectual elite, sports enthusiasts, cult restaurateurs, refined ladies who in different ways slowly but surely make their way and occupy an important place in (and not so strictly) patriarchal society..., are just some of the characters which the reader will encounter during this journey into the past that happened or into the past that could have happened...
Pictorially and cinematically described scenes, authentic characters, original and interesting dialogues, beautiful narration, with a passion for chess and football, as well as art, bring closer the romanticized atmosphere of everyday life that Bečanović sees as "taken from particularly inspiring chess games".
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