Summary
Aleksandar Tišma: About his axis
Anyone who has already read Aleksandar Tišma's autobiography or diary before this book, or preferably both, will notice the mutual connection of all three readings. The multiple memory of Vala is presented here as a narrative summarization and creative modulation of the diary material, and Oko osi as an artistic processing of individual motifs from the diary or as a series of narrative digressions independent of the main flow. autobiographies. Although it clearly has a memoir character, the collection Around its Axis is not a journalistic but a literary and artistic text. With its documentary texture, it ultimately fits into the general context of Tišma's prose. In the maelstrom of History, Tisma, as usual, is primarily interested in small, ordinary people and their destinies, usually sad, sometimes tragic. Aleksandar Tišma, sometimes as a protagonist, and sometimes as an observer, testifies about this petty-bourgeois environment on the outskirts of the city, which is fighting frantically for survival, a roof over its head and something more than that. And although even in this book he does not fail to declare himself a misanthrope, his tacit sympathy and compassion for his heroes, as well as what he does for some of them when he is the actor himself, convince us otherwise.
From the foreword by Jovan Popov
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