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LITERATURE

I consider that the Commission should be short stories, that is, the leading stories,
mixed, including both Macedonian and ex- are lyrical prose rather than stories in the
ternal experts. However, it is not. If we re- classical sense of the word. They speak of
view the selection of works for this prize, conditions, of feelings much more than
and for the prize Novel of the year, we they construct a world where something
should consider two major facts, which is happening. These are states of concern.
make a short cut, with the decade prac- Usually the author expresses his displea-
tice of awarding, and which was anecdot- sure with conditions where the ephemera
ally determined by our critics. Namely, the deeply damage the primordial things. The
previous diverse literary prizes (and not lake and its biosphere are threatened,
only these) had a weak credibility in pub- the trees are cut, the city as an aesthetic
lic. These were accompanied by overhang- place and a place to live in, is damaged.
ing rumors of clientelism, collegial privi- I would say that these are the parts that
leges, ingratiation etc. As a famous writer make Joldeski’s prose valuable and attrac-
used to say, you will stand in the line and tive: the lyric, the accumulated symbol-
you will wait for it to come. That’s not ism, against the reduced expression, and
how it is, at least not with these prizes. the intellectual appeal, the discretely di-
The prizes are meritorious. And recently rected revolt of the author in regard to
they give advantage to young authors, the present conditions.
which is always right as cultural policy. If
there was a cut or discontinuity in regard In this sense, Joldeski’s prose seems a
to the literary careers of some authors, bit anachronistic, however this is nice. It
and a lack of possibility to realize interna-
tional promotion, then it is always better
to begin with young authors, so that they
could get an opportunity to timely involve
in world trends. And the mature authors
should get this opportunity by means of
other channels, through the work of the
scientific institutions, the high govern-
mental and intergovernmental bodies etc.

I prepared this long introduction be-
cause these issues constantly imposed
during the reading of the collection of
short stories by Nenad Joldeski. The book
is published in 2012, which means that
the new production does not have to be
preserved during the selection. In this
regard, I wonder, was this the book of
short stories that marked the past sever-
al years? Is it a matter of some aesthetic
of intellectual credo that we missed and
didn’t notice?

I would primarily say that, same as
most young authors, Nenad Joldeski is
preoccupied with the issue of his au-
thorial manuscript, his own poetics.
The traces of his aesthetic and autho-
rial tastes are very expressed in his short
stories. The book is expressively artistic.
The stories are short, the retorics is ex-
pressively metaphorical, non-mimetic.
Primarily we could say that most of the

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