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LITERATURE
Robert Alagjozovski
The author is a literary critic
and a PhD candidate(ABD)
in Cultural Management
Promising but
unsupported
To the book “The body in whichone should live: toxic flowers of the delicate morale”, Petar
Andonovski, “Ili-Ili Publishing House”, 2015
Throughout our experience as novativeness of the procedure, it was still
columnists in the magazine, used as a civic protest.
we started to review the new
works by same authors, as For his novice prose “Eyes with the
they publish them with the color of shoes”, that we reviewed onthese
new season. Hence, besides Rumena Bu- pages, Petar Andonovski almost received
zarovska, the new novel by Petar Ando- the most prestigious award for prose,
novski took its turn. Of course, we are Novel of the year, from “Utrinski Vesnik”
happy to do this because the two authors newspaper. This encouraged the young
are among the best of the new genera- author to write a new novel, to provide a
tion, the ones who should take the title review from a top expert precisely about
of young authors instead of the already the poetics he writes in, the professor
world-famous Goce Smilevski, Nikola at the Department of Comparative Lit-
Madzirov, Vladimir Marinovski. Rumena erature, Maja Bojadzievska, to compete
Buzarovska has already turned into a in the Publishing Program within the
small regional star, there is simply nofes- Ministry of Culture, whose priority is sup-
tival where she hasn’t been invited these port of works by young authors – and not
months, and Petar Andonovski continues to receive it. Annoyed by Commission‘s
to mature and he is expected to be the ignoring of his work and the references,
new export product of the Macedonian Andonovski still decides to publish the
literature. book, whereby everyone from the creative
team, reviewer, proofreader, designer, il-
However, there is one systemic prob- lustrator and publisher, waive their fees,
lem with young authors, that is, precisely and they sell the book for a symbolic price
with this work by Petar Andonovski, and of 50 denars.
we have to addressthis problem before we
say more about the novel itself. The novel There is no excuse for this rough over-
was published as an act of protest and in- sight by the Commission. Regardless of
stead of marketing, the creative team and the various balances that their decisions
the publisher chose civic activism. When should make, such non-recognition of a
the function of the act of protest would be young, and quality author, is a bigfailure.
marketing, rather than revolt, we would However, let’s try to think about a new
say that it is a matter of a brilliant mar- strategic model of operation of the Pub-
keting solution. However, unfortunately, lishing Department within the Ministry
no matter how delighted we are by the in- of Culture, so that it would not make the
same mistakes in the future. Namely, I
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