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LITERATURE

the warmth of the people against the social
climate. Ahmed Buric, who was part of the
residency in Skopje, wrote an entire collec-
tion of poems, The Master of Skopje and Oth-
er Poems, (deeply inspired by the new urban
context of the city), which unfortunately is
still not supported to be published in Mace-
donian language as well.

The existence of the literary residencies
in the cultural system is vitally required
for the international cultural cooperation,
it does not cost a lot, and as the cases with
Dimkovska, Pancic and others show, they
can perpetuate the glory of a specific city in
a more essential manner, than the expensive
tenders for beautification or attraction of
tourists in the current city policies in Skopje
and Split.

From Spalato to Skopelo both in terms of love and in terms of fam-
The story of the novel No-Qui is a story of ily, against the prejudices of the other and
larger social barriers. Nedjeljka was inspired
two women, two women named Nedjeljka, a by a comer in Split, the French journalist
grandmother and a granddaughter and their Charlotte, who married in Split and brought
life stories, starting from the thirties of the the magazines with the most recent French
twentieth century, to present day. These are fashion. Nedjeljka had a similar experience,
two strong characters, strong women, who whose difficult Slavic name was trans-
carry the spirit of two different periods. One formed into Neda by the residents of Split,
is the heroic era of the twentieth century, and she ironically calls the French spirit No-
and the second is the modern globalized Oui, as a language game, a direct translation
world, a world without pathos and great of the syllables of the name, which function
ideals, when the emptiness of the existence as the most basic affirmative-negative pro-
is barely accompanied by some awareness nouns. No-Oui falls epically in love with her
of the society and small attempts for resis- opponent. More precisely, her brother’s op-
tance and life changes. This is a novel on the
issues of the identity, the affiliation, the dif-
ficulty to fit into a new environment, the for-
eignness and strangeness. Narrating about
grandmother Neda, Dimkovska also narrates
about her personal position of a writer with
two homes, writing in Macedonian language,
she belongs to our literature, and also lives
in Ljubljana.

The grandmother Nedjeljka starts her life
as a daughter of a fisherman and a green
market seller and swayed by the revolu-
tionary spirit of the epoch, she manages to
emancipate, together with her peers, accept-
ing many novelties which were strange to
the traditional environment. She wore trou-
sers, went to promenades alone, and coura-
geously helped in the period of Split’s fascist
occupation. But later as well, through her
preparedness to make a personal life choice,

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