The enormous literary work of the world writer Borislav Pekić requires a broad knowledge of the humanities, disciplines that study the permanence and essence of man, the experience of being human, academician Nenad Vuković pointed out yesterday, closing the two-day scientific conference "Borislav Pekić - 90 years since birth (1930-2020)" which was held at the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts CANU in Podgorica.
"The result of this, as well as every previous meeting, will be the publication of a collection, with the highest literary-scientific and aesthetic criteria. During the scientific meeting, we listened to 14 papers, and 18 of them will be published in the proceedings... We are aware of many problems that organizers face when organizing this type of meetings - first, how to meet the high scientific criteria set by an institution such as CANU, and with other parties and how to gather eminent scientists dealing with the work of Borislav Pekić. These two days we tried and confirmed that we succeeded and met the high literary and scientific requirements", said Vuković.
The collection will include: prof. Dr. Nebojša J. Lazić, academician Tonko Maroević, prof. Milorad Jevrić, Ph.D., Maja Sekulović, M.Sc., prof. Tatjana Đurišić Bečanović, PhD, writer Aleksandar Gatalica, as well as Zora Jestrović, MSc, Tijana Rakočević, MSc, associate member of CANU prof. Dr. Siniša Jelušić, academician Radomir V. Ivanović, prof. Dr. Sonja Tomović Šundić, prof. Vida Ognjenović, prof. Dr. Lidija Tomić, prof. Dr. Vesna Vukićević Janković, assistant professor Jelena Bašanović Čečović, PhD, Danijela Radojević, PhD, Milun Lutovac, PhD, and Branka Dragosavac, PhD. During the meeting, they also presented the focus of their works that are in preparation, announcing a detailed and comprehensive collection that will provide insight into refined analyzes of Pekić's works, his creativity, reflections, language and style.
"Participants approached Pekić's works from various angles, looking for and finding the key to defining various examples. And 'key' is a strange word... In Sweden, I have heard, more than once, that it is said that the word 'nyckeln' (key) is the most significant and most used word for something. Various questions from history, myth, politics, logic, the logic of violence, madness, compromise, the relationship between fact and imagination, fantasy and reality, the nomadic spirit of Pekić, and then the stylistic views of the structure of Pekić's works are presented, processed and posed here. A special joy is the confirmation that even in our Academy we are showing full scientific potential that calls for us to deal with and open up dealing with the Pekić language - something that few people dealt with, and which is very important", reminded Vuković.
One of the questions that Vuković asked in his final presentation concerns the times and circumstances in which we live, namely "How to read Pekić today?".
"Each generation is obliged to read for themselves, and especially to read great works and great writers," he says and adds:
"It's as if the starting point is those words of Homer: 'Mother Earth has given birth to nothing more tragic than man - she gave him reason'. The fact that each report confirmed a thorough reading of Pekić's works, works of an almost incomprehensible, intertwined, strange literary fabric, is a great satisfaction for all of us. I heartily congratulate and thank all the participants".
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