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<\/a><\/p>\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n
BRANKO AN\u0110I\u0106<\/span>, (1952, Belgrade) a writer, translator, professor of literature and journalist.<\/p>\n \n Born in Belgrade, Branko An\u0111i\u0107 graduated from the Department of General Literature and Theory of Literature of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. A co-founder and editor of the journal for world literature Pismo (Letters)<\/em>, An\u0111i\u0107 is a former editorial member of Knji\u017eevne novine (Literary Journal)<\/em>. Since 1990 he has been living and working in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n \n He has published the books of prose: Posle svirke<\/strong> <\/em>(After a Gig<\/em>, 1983), Lavica li\u017ee rane<\/strong><\/em> (A Lioness<\/em> \n An\u0111i\u0107 has prepared several Latin American anthological story selections and has translated works of some of the most popular Latin American, Spanish and North American writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia M\u00e1rkuez, Jos\u00e9 Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Ana Maria Shua, Liliana Heer, Pedro Juan Guti\u00e9rrez, Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset, David Sedaris, Isodoro Blaisten, David Bezmozgis.<\/p>\n \n He is the 2011 winner of the literary prize \u201cMilo\u0161 Crnjanski<\/em>\u201d awarded by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n About the novel Play-back<\/strong><\/p>\n The kaleidoscopic structure of the novel ,,Play-back<\/strong><\/em>” by Branko An\u0111i\u0107 is essentially connected with music as a paradigm of global life experience. It is from music and everything musical in their lives that his heroes, overwhelmed by nostalgia, are trying to arrive at a story which, for them, is a home for the self. Different narrative insights into the world, strategies and tonalities of storytelling, ranging from confessional prose through pseudo-psychoanalytical records to fantasy, arranged in the 27 narrative wholes, are linked by a nonlinear logic that resembles the open structure of Rubik\u2019s Cube, while the focal point of this slow and elegiac book about growing up and aging lies in the experience of music. In the layers of distinctive verbal aesthetics we recognize it as a gap between the said and the played.<\/p>\n \n From the Foreword<\/em><\/p>\n About the novel Te\u0161ki metal<\/strong> (Heavy Metal<\/strong>)<\/p>\n The Lego bricks that made up the eternity\u2019s bad joke called Yugoslavia fell apart as quickly as it took An\u0111i\u0107 to cover \u2013 in a twine of several fragmentary units, quite sufficient to paint an impossible ideological (political) system based on false postulates, with a couple of well-profiled characters \u2013 the road from a mature, \u201cideal\u201d community to a complete collapse that came after the bloody, gangster-like petty interests in whose wake not only the homes and the supposed \u201cstate\u201d but also definitely lost souls of its citizens remained empty.<\/p>\n \n \u0110or\u0111e Pisarev<\/em><\/p>\n \n What kind of backwaters a myth forks into, and what the fate is of the logically nonsensical phrases \u201cAfter Tito – Tito!\u201d is shown in the mosaic story of the new Branko An\u0111i\u0107\u2019 novel ,,Te\u0161ki metal”<\/em><\/strong>, whose arch of events descends from the top of the Yugoslav utopia of the 1980s, when the \u201cConsilium\u201d news made headlines and the generally accepted incredibility that the leader might die, towards the dark atmosphere of the 1990s, where the news are of the war. Following a reality that has long since melted and a history that consistently learns that it cannot teach us anything, An\u0111i\u0107 serves to his readers the developments related to the period between two springs \u2013 the one of 1980 and the one of 1992 – and essentially witnesses the low lifestyle register of a few of his heroes before whose eyes the Yugoslav utopia once appeared as just that – a utopia, and then disappeared completely.<\/p>\n Nenad \u0160aponja<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABOUT THE AUTHOR BRANKO AN\u0110I\u0106, (1952, Belgrade) a writer, translator, professor of literature and journalist. Born in Belgrade, Branko An\u0111i\u0107 graduated from the Department of General Literature and Theory of Literature of the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade. 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\n Licks Her Wounds<\/em>, 1989), Kao iz kabla<\/strong><\/em> (Pouring Rain<\/em>, 2003), Ovo je istinita pri\u010da<\/em><\/strong> (This Is a True Story<\/em>, 2007), Veli\u010dina sveta<\/strong><\/em> (The Size of the World<\/em>, 2008), Play back<\/strong><\/em> (2012) and Te\u0161ki metal<\/strong> <\/em>(Heavy Metal<\/em>, 2014).<\/p>\n