Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenja

by Faruk Šehić

Aleph – točka koja sadržava sve točke, mjesto u kojemu se, iz svakog kuta, može vidjeti svaki zakutak svijeta – u slavnoj Borgesovoj priči skriven je u podrumu jedne kuće. Nimalo slučajno; da bi se vidjelo i razumjelo, zna sva istinska književnost, nužno je spustiti se do podruma. Ući u mrak i gledati.

Faruk Šehić pisac je koji svakom svojom knjigom čini baš to. U romanu Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenja, prvom koji je napisao nakon veličanstvene Knjige o Uni, u svome podrumu pronalazi svemir i osvjetljava ga jezikom toliko jasnim i lijepim da boli. Ondje je naš Prvi rat, umoran i patrijarhalan, ostario i mučen želučanim tegobama. Ondje su Cortez Cortez i Cinnamon Girl, njegova djeca-geleri, dvoje čija ljubav umije osvijetliti svjetove. U Šehićevu podrumu, ponad ruševina, svemirski brodovi prte galaksijama, a holoakvarel-priče preživitelja bodu kroz vrijemeprostor – igle od vatre i usijanog mraka. Ali Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenjanisu roman o apokalipsi. Baš suprotno, oni su knjiga o onima koji apokalipse preživljavaju, a osobito o najhrabrijima među njima: onima koji nisu zaboravili kako voljeti.

Nema mnogo pisaca koji za Alephom tragaju toliko ustrajno i hrabro kao Faruk Šehić. Cimetna pisma, dijamantna stvorenja potraga su koja zahvaća još dalje u prostor, još dublje u vrijeme. U kojoj pri­povijedaju ratnici i pjesnici, poharani gradovi, strojevi s empatijom i naš neprijatelj. U kojoj se poezija i fizika napokon razotkrivaju kao jedno. Velik roman koji ne ostavlja sumnje: ono što je Šehić pronašao, naše je. Naš je svemir, naš je podrum, naša je i kuća.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2024

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’.

Reviews

[Haris Avdic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ioako u početku šarmantna i privlačna radnja, kako vrijeme odmiče gubi suštinu i radnja postaje suviše apstranktna i nepovezana...