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<\/a><\/p>\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n
MIRKO DEMI\u0106<\/span> was born in 1964 in Gornji Klasni\u0107 near Glina.<\/p>\n He has published the prose books: Jabuke Hesperida<\/em><\/strong> (Hesperides\u2019 Apples<\/em>, 1990), Slamka u nosu<\/em><\/strong> (A Straw in the Nose<\/em>, novel, 1996), \u0106ilibar, med, oskoru\u0161a<\/em><\/strong> (Amber, Honey, Service Tree<\/em>, novel, 2001, 2005, 2011), Apokrifi o Furtuli<\/strong><\/em> (Apocrypha of Furtula<\/em>, 2003), Sluge hirovitog lu\u010dono\u0161e<\/em><\/strong> (A Capricious Torchbearer\u2019s Servants<\/em>, novel, 2006), Molski akordi<\/em><\/strong> (Minor Chords<\/em>, stories, 2008, 2009), Trezvenjaci na pijanoj la\u0111i<\/em><\/strong> (Teetotallers on a Drunken Boat<\/em>, novel, 2010), Po(v)ratni\u010dki rekvijem<\/em><\/strong> (Post-war (returnee\u2019s) Requiem<\/em>, novel, 2012), Ataka na Itaku<\/strong><\/em> (The Attack on Ithaca<\/em>, stories, 2015) and \u0106utanja iz Gore<\/em><\/strong> (Silences from the Mountain<\/em>, novel, 2016).<\/p>\n In addition, he has published a book of essays, (re)views and marginalia Pod otrovnim pla\u0161tom<\/em><\/strong> (Under a Poison Cloak<\/em>, 2010) and Na ni\u010dijoj zemlji<\/strong> <\/em>(In No Man\u2019s Land<\/em>, 2016), as well as a book of journalistic texts Sla\u0111enje gor\u010dinom<\/strong><\/em> (Savouring Bitterness<\/em>, 2008). With Bojan Jovanovi\u0107 he has co-authored the book \u010citanje proro\u010danstva<\/strong><\/em> (Reading a Prophesy<\/em>, 2011).<\/p>\n Demi\u0107 has prepared the books: Buna u Banovini u Klasni\u0107u 1883. godine<\/strong><\/em> (The 1883 Banovina<\/em> The book of stories Molski akordi<\/em><\/strong> has earned him the “Andri\u0107 Award<\/em>” (2009), the novel Trezvenjaci na pijanoj la\u0111i<\/em><\/strong> the \u201cDejan Medakovi\u0107<\/em>\u201d award (2011), and the novel \u0106utanja iz Gore<\/em><\/strong> the \u201cMe\u0161a Selimovi\u0107<\/em>\u201d award (2017).<\/p>\n Demi\u0107 was given the 2013 \u201c\u0110ura Dani\u010di\u0107<\/em>\u201d award for his contribution to the development of librarian and information work and culture in the Republic of Serbia. Parts of his novels, his stories and essays have been translated into English, German, Polish and Ukrainian. The book of stories Molski akordi<\/em> <\/strong>has been translated into Macedonian (2011). From 2002 to 2011 he was the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine \u201cKoraci\u201d (Steps<\/em>) and is a member of the Serbian Literary Society. He lives in Kragujevac.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the book \u0106utanja iz Gore <\/strong>(Silences from the Mountain<\/em>)<\/p>\n Demi\u0107\u2019 novel is a successful modernized novel-phantasmagoria of Peter\u2019s Mountain between myth and reality, between the archaic and the modern.<\/p>\n Dobrivoje Stanojevi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \n The book by M. Demi\u0107 is not an example of a clear genre. The dramatic reason for the fictional binding of fragments lies in the centennial flow of silence to the point of finding out what had been going on with Peter\u2019s Mountain and its people from ancient to recent times. This great work of fiction is characterised by mastery in \u201cweaving\u201d pro et contra, a feeling of historic turning points affecting the men of the Mountain, and a vividness of language and the refined style of M. Demi\u0107.<\/p>\n Milo\u0161 Petrovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \n The book by M. Demi\u0107 is a phantasmagorical-symbolic novel, therefore, an interpretation of high abstraction, an interpretation whose both occasion and message are, however, quite specific: the occasion, only alluded to, is the recent wars in our region, and political conflicts as both their cause and consequence, while the explicit message is a cynical apocrypha, the ultimately bitter existential experience that can hardly be said out loud.<\/p>\n Stojan \u0110or\u0111i\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \n Demi\u0107\u2019 hero, the prophet Dijakovi\u0107, comes from primordial times, and from his own self testifies to the resurrection of the Book as a universal crypto-text of the world. From an archeparadox to a post-mortem speech, Demi\u0107 weaves a wise, spiritual story about muteness, unrest and quietness.<\/p>\n Danica Andrejevi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \n Peter\u2019s Mountain, a mountain in Croatia, is depicted in Demi\u0107\u2019 phantasmagoria as a complex space, which spreads its leaves in several ways: historically, culturally, metaphysically, mythologically… Silence is a sophisticated descent through human, personal and general memory, through old languages, into the depths of the general and personal oblivion.<\/p>\n \u010caslav Nikoli\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c\u0106utanja<\/strong><\/em>\u201d is a crown of Demi\u0107\u2019 pentalogy dedicated to exile and a nostalgic retrospect of the homeland. The author has masterfully conducted a formal triple twine made of a narrative about Peter\u2019s Mountain as a historical-political topos and spectral emanations of folklore fiction.<\/p>\n Vladimir B. Peri\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \nThe latest novel by M. Demi\u0107 is the last volume in a pentalogy thematicizing complex Croatian-Serbian relationships in the writer\u2019s home place. The sophisticated language of the writer and his meticulously sought and found narrative procedure set this book apart and raise it to a higher level in comparison to the majority of this year\u2019s novels.<\/p>\n Neboj\u0161a Lazi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \nThe phantasmagorias of M. Demi\u0107, the head-spinning dive into the archetypical, mythical, daydreaming, deeply ours, is yet another anthological novel in a series we have been presented with by one of the best novelists we have had.<\/p>\n Du\u0161an Stojkovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \nM. Demi\u0107, in the phantasmagorical book, twining the mythical-biblical and actual, follows the destiny of Serbs through centuries, while at the foot of Peter\u2019s Mountain there is a constant skirmish between the soul and the body, sanity and insanity, the timeless and the eternal.<\/p>\n Gordana Vlahovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n \nThe complex novel by M. Demi\u0107 knots together, on a single historic spot, several civilizations, cultures, nations, beliefs, as well as meditative interpretations of silence and the name of Peter (of the mountain and of the King), which are both in synergy and contradiction, just like life is outside one\u2019s country of origin, in general and everywhere.<\/p>\n Aleksandar B. Lakovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\n Rebellion in Krasni\u0107,<\/em> 2003), by \u0110or\u0111e A. Petrovi\u0107, Talasi i eseji<\/strong><\/em> (Waves and Essays<\/em>, 2005) and Tmurni dnevi<\/em> <\/strong>(Gloomy Days<\/em>, 2006) by Milan Budisavljevi\u0107, as well as Gorke kapi<\/strong> <\/em>(Bitter Drops<\/em>) by Milan Pribi\u0107evi\u0107 (2013).<\/p>\n