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The Great War
Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2015
A whirlpool of a book that draws in the reader, moving ambitiously across place, class and profession yet tying all into the dreadful pull of the first global conflict. A war that began in the Balkans now has a fitting literary epitaph from a giant among Balkan writers.
Tim Butcher – bestselling British writer and author of The Trigger
‘The Great War’ is a novel that comprehensively and passionately narrates a number of stories covering the duration of World War One, starting with the year 1914 – the year that truly marked the beginning of the twentieth century. Following the destinies of over seventy characters, on all warring sides, Gatalica depicts the experiences of winners and losers, generals and opera singers, soldiers and spies; managing to grasp the atmosphere of the entire epoch, not only of these crucial four and a half bloody years, but also in the innocent decades that preceded the war, and the poisoned ones that followed.
The stories themselves are various but equally important: here we find joyful as well as tragic destinies, along with examples of exceptional heroism. Yet ‘The Great War’ never becomes a chronicle, nor a typical historical novel; above all it is a work of art that uses historic events as means to tell stirring stories with unbelievable and unthinkable convolutions. It is commendable in its breadth, its vision and its relevance to modern history.
‘…Aleksander Gatalica’s novel arrives from Belgrade in Will Firth’s excellent translation without much contextual baggage for Anglophone readers. But this hardly matters anyway, for ‘The Great War’ (Veliki rat, 2012) cleaves to no national traditions. Gatalica’s panoramic novel rides high above the conflict, dipping down for close-ups of this or that character in Istanbul, Galacia, Belgrade, Flanders, St. Petersburg, London ‘Serious artists think seriously about strong emotions, frivolous ones use them as bad magicians’ Aleksandar Gatalica Sunday Morning, within the Kaleidoscope of Culture, was reserved for the unusual mix of music and literature. Aleksandar Gatalica, a writer, and Marko Miletić, a cellist and professor at the Academy of Arts, spoke on this subject. The conversation was led by Vladimir Gvozden, PhD, professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy, and the audience could follow this interesting conversation via The Kaleidoscope of Culture and Novi Sad 2021 Facebook pages and, while visitors to the Najlon market could follow the conversation live on Sunday morning, 20 September. Aleksandar Gatalica, the Serbian writer, translator from the ancient Greek language and music critic, has published 11 books so far, and for ‘The Great War’ he received the NIN award in 2012. His prose has been translated into ten European languages and published in all literary magazines in the former Yugoslavia and Serbia. But writing was not his only passion. His interest in music began in early childhood, he finished primary and secondary music school in the accordion department, and as he says, his fondest memories are when working for Novosti newspapers where he worked as a music critic. He wrote a dozen music reviews for Aleksandar Madžar, and according to his words, that time was fascinating and never happened again. ‘Three out of those dozen reviews, were victorious, three or four were a complete failure, while three or four were somewhere in between. In three years, his concerts were the concerts of the year. He was never angry with me, he is the kind of artist who is endowed with a genius that did not always find a way to good performances because he did not choose the compositions in the best way. He was often a victim of his genius, but when he used his head, he was definitely our Chopin. And he will always be our Chopin,’ Gat Belgrade during the additional, 25th hour was built according to the memories of those characters who were either expelled or left the city in the fight for their lives. Phantasmagoria, by no means a space for the rehabilitation of works and characters mentioned in the novel, writer from Serbia Aleksandar Gatalica as if in the novel "Dvadeset peti sat" he is playing with the readers' imagination and beliefs while multidimensionally and fictionally building real characters and spaces. In the novel, we meet numerous personalities who emigrated after the Second World War, such as Miloš Crnjanski, Stanislav Krakov, Vladimir Velmar Janković, Dragiša Vasić, and who actually get their doubles - returnees to the timeless Belgrade that exists in the comparative world of the so-called "Twenty-fifth Hour". In reality, the characters are mostly forgotten, neglected or even completely erased, due to the choice of the wrong side during one of the wars... All this, at the same time, is a basis for thinking about the cyclical repetition of time, that is, time periods, but also an incentive for the question whether and how much is learned or learned from the past... Gradually, the novel expands, layers and complicates to the elements of historical, romance, thriller, fantasy or mystery novel, as the author classifies it. In an interview with "Vijesti", Gatalica states that only in the last few years has the world been realigning itself and moving into the beginning of the 21st century, and points out that the next period will determine the direction in which the actors will move. The author of works such as "The Great War", "The Last Argonaut" and many others, visited Podgorica in mid-December when "Twenty-fifth Hour" was presented at the "Booka" Regional Festival of Books and Writers. Your novel "Twenty-fifth Hour", after it was also published in Montenegrin, was presented at the "Booka" Regional Festival of Books and Writers in Podgor
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