Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: Elsewhere
Seemingly far from war and evil, seemingly free from the limitations imposed by language, travel writing is still a challenging genre place of ambivalence: how to recognize the system and permanence of the places we visit, how to choose impressions, how to turn wanderings into regularity, how to be the judge and arbiter of places, situations, nature and concepts that we see briefly, from one perspective? How can Aleksandar Tišma, who is famous for Novi Sad, be given the role of a travel journalist?
We have before us eight travelogues of Tišma, and in them the landscapes of America and India, the institutions of Poland, the streets of Berlin and Budapest, several days of cycling to the south through the towns of Novi Sad, Stepojevac and Lazarevac, Guča, Kraljevo, Vrnjačka Banja, Raške are intertwined and to the final destination: Kosovska Mitrovica. All these adventures fit together in a mosaic of memories, in a poetic and stylistic progression towards the constellation of experience. In front of every experience, positioned as a curious stranger, Tišma breaks down the foreignness until she recognizes its originality, independence, uniqueness and only such experiences she keeps.
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