Summary
Nataša Govedić: Div
If we call Div a novel, we would not be wrong, but not particularly precise, because it is much more than that. It is a unique collision of prose, poetry, philosophy and the surreal, a collision without which one could not go really deep into the issues of loss, the search for meaning and love in a world of simultaneous beauty and decay. The novel Div can be and is many things, for me it is first and foremost an exceptional exploration of madness. I say madness on purpose, not mental illness or something else, because here madness is not approached reductively, neither therapeutically, nor (auto)victimizing, nor from the perspective of a burden on the social environment. Madness is presented to us here as - the power of creation. At the level of words, images, meaning, a uniquely witty vision of the mechanisms of the world, madness is revealed to us as the last refuge of real humanity, intelligence and the ability for true closeness. Nataša Govedić leads us into an intimate landscape woven of the joy and chill of language, which becomes our only compass in a text of exceptional complexity, a text-riddle. But for the reader there is no fear, Div is not a monster, it is read quickly and voraciously, because it is emotional without pathos, smart without pretentiousness and because it opens itself to reading on many levels, none of which is wrong, each one reaches the same goal. An intimate space in which the reader, the Giant, the protagonists and the author seem to throw inside jokes, which belong only to that unique relationship and to no other.
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