Transsarajevo

by Faruk Šehić

Poezija i stroge poetske proze bosanskog pjesnika i prozaika, novinara i autora već kultne zbirke poezije Hit depo (2003) Faruka Šehića najvažnija su pojava na integriranoj bosansko-hrvatskoj sceni posljednjeg desetljeća.

Zbirka Transsarajevo, koja se sastoji iz tri ciklusa Proročanstva za 21. vijek, Sićusne mitologije i Transsarajevo sadrži pjesme koje spadaju u najjače poetske iskaze danas.
Na pozadini traumtiziranosti iz 90-ih, Faruk Šehić njenu energiju u dugim, eskalirajućim pjesmama prenosi na temu obnovljenog doživljaja, tako reći tek sada mogućeg otkrića prirode i urbanog svijeta tranzicijske Bosne i Hrvatske.

Šehićevi stihovi su oštri, precizni, surovi, ironični, nabijeni osjećajima i bogati metaforama; oni u svakom trenutku razotkrivaju i razgolićuju naš unutrašnji i vanjski svijet.
Faruk Šehić je autor koji brilijantno, duhovito i precizno vlada svojim poetskim izrazom.
Datum objave ove, za autora prelomne, po stilu ekspresionističke a formalno krajnje disciplinirane zbirke, svakako obećava da će biti zabilježen i zapamće u novom hrvatskom i bosanskom pjesništvu.

“Nitko tako očajno i veličanstveno kao Faruk Šehić nije pjevao o generaciji što je otišla direktno iz diskoteke i školskih klupa u rovove, pa bila pokošena kao snoplje u ratu, koji je barem za jedan vijek dokinuo sve kulturne atribute balkanskih naroda. U knjizi Transsarajevo on pjeva o spaljenim iluzijama i životima, ali bez nade da će to život iscijeliti. Šehić je preživio i svojih mrtvih drugova on se danas sjeća kao malenih žižaka u šumskoj pomrčini (…) Šehićeva poezija je »veristička«, on, naime ne poetizira stvarnost, već poeziju čini do kraja stvarnosnom. Snažnim bennovskim slikama opisuje prizore umiranja, kakav je onaj iz sarajevske bolnice Koševo, gdje »čovjek zadignute majice prosi pokazujući teteovirani tumor stomaka« pa je »narastajuće divlje meso rasteglo plavi crtež do prsnuća«. No, sve to transcendira u pitanje »ko zna u kakavu bi se metaforu mogla pretvoriti takva izraslina«.” (Mile Stojić, BH Dani)

79 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Faruk Šehić was born in 1970 in Bihać, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Until the outbreak of war in 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old joined the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works.
His second book ‘Hit depot’ (2003) was the absolutely literary bestseller in Bosnia despite that was a poetry book. In this book he made a sketches of a several main topic of his later works such as postwar life on the edge of society. His poems are about local (and global) feeling of capitalistic way of life mixed with desperate postwar life in ruins, remains of dead society in Sarajevo and Bosnia.
Literary critics have hailed Šehić as the leader of the ‘mangled generation’ of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. His collection of short stories ‘Under Pressure’ (Pod pritiskom, 2004) was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel ‘Quiet Flows the Una’ (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. His most recent book is a collection of poetry entitled ‘My Rivers’ (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014) for whom he received Risto Ratković Award for the best poetry book in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2014. His books are translated into french, italian, german, english, bulgarian, macedonian, polish, slovenian and hungarian language. Šehić lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist in respected political magazine ‘BH Dani’.