Семољ земља

Continuing Semolj Mountain, the novel is a narrative collage of words and landscapes, ordered like a dictionary around 909 mountain place names. Instead of a conventional story with characters, it keeps a disappearing world alive in words and language: a former epic space with archaic depth and tragic symbols, the old story of old people from old places, born in myth and lost somewhere along the way. Its fragmentary, glossary-like form, built from entries and key words of an imagined and real homeland, is itself the shape of that vanishing.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

467 pages in the original

First published

2005 by Filip Višnjić

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9788673634289 (original)