Summary
Dragan Stojanović: About idyll and happiness
It would be wrong, even naive, to assume that there are idyllic moments in a book that wants to talk about idyll and happiness. Dragan Stojanović, with his beautiful and confident style, writes pages characterized by linguistic harmony, but the talk about idyll and happiness almost necessarily has to rely on what is outside of these phenomena or, perhaps, concepts. The writer who tries to capture the idyllic and happy in the canvases of Claude Lorrain is already caught up in the triple game of painting, language and theory, he placed himself in a heterogeneous space in order to try to say something about the homogeneity that is on the other side of language. That's why Stojanović's book is torn between the notes of a careful observer, learned passages, hermeneutic interventions in painting, literature, philosophy, sacred writings or psychoanalytical texts. The result of that procedure, which, one gets the impression, is born on the spot, in the very act of writing, is an original and "long-lasting" book.
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