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LITERATURE
continues the line of world authors, par- zglobinski. The city and the place in the
ticularly at the end of the nineteenth and city breathe in a myth dimension, as a
the beginning of the twentieth century. sort of spiritual vertical which builds the
Walser, Kafka, Schulz, authors from the identity, the axis of the young author.
margins, however who left a significant
mark in literature, although it was with a There are several other manners in the
slight delay. When it comes to literary ex- retelling that establish this connection
amples, we would say that Joldeski estab- with Duracovski (in a similar way as Du-
lishes a strong literary relation to another racovski was obsessed by Leonid Sejka).
author from his native Struga. It is Dimit- Joldeski wants to experiment with the lit-
rie Duracovski. Joldeski does not hide this erary form. He plays with the beginnings
literary impact. On the contrary, he tries of his short stories. With the very title of
to establish strong spiritual, poetic and the book. By redrawing he shows how the
literary relation with the supreme author world of fiction is created. How the au-
from Struga, Duracovski. This is perceiv- thor hesitates about the selection of the
able at many levels. Joldeski builds on sentences, the phrases, the very mean-
Duracovski’s need to construct the local ings. He makes a breakthrough of the
chronotope, to poetically imagine Struga, documentary, the modern means of com-
the lake, the river, the bridge, the old tree munication (the emails, the hyperlinks)
by the house, the cultural history through in the world of fiction. In this regard, in
the character and the work of Nikola Ne- the quite artistic short stories, the mayor
Ramiz Merko was directly blamed for his
negligent treatment of the city. Joldeski
mentioned his participations and artistic
actions in the art group Vezdenski.
He constantly mixes the world of fic-
tion and the world of reality. However,
even when he deals with documentary
characters, these are his friends-artists,
writers, proofreaders, and Nezglobinski
who is a character from the cultural his-
tory of the city.
In general, this small book of short
stories is completed as an entirety, for-
mally, although it is only a small part, few
sights through the broken windows of the
glazing of the young author and his poet-
ics, In this regard, it seems to me that it
is only the beginning, conquering of the
literary space by the author. He is yet to
determine whether he will stay within
this poetics or whether he will continue
to look for himself.
It is a valuable achievement in that
process. The prizes, no matter how great
they are, they are part of that process.
For his first book “The Silence of Enha-
lon”, Nenad Joldeski won the prize “No-
vite (The New Ones)” for best debut book
in 2009. This made him a great potential
for international glory. However, it seems
to me that the work which will be read
and sold throughout the world is yet to be
written.
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