Predgovor za nekoliko nenapisanih romana i dnevnik tog predgovora
Ristić's book combines a preface, a diary, and poetics into a hybrid text about unwritten novels. It is important for the surrealist tradition and sought after as a rare antiquarian edition. A reprint of the 1935 edition.
Preface to Several Unwritten Novels and the Diary of That Preface by Marko Ristić is a distinctive work on the border between essays, diaries and fiction. Instead of completed novels, the book offers their traces: ideas, moods, motives and fragments that could have become prose works, but remained in the space of possibility. It is precisely in this incompleteness that its main strength lies.
Here, Ristić does not present literature as a finished product, but as a process of emergence, hesitation and self-questioning. The preface outgrows its usual function and becomes an independent work, and the diary entries reveal the internal dynamics of writing. Thus, the book occupies an important place in Ristić's oeuvre and in the broader context of surrealist and avant-garde poetics.
Overall, it is a work that attracts not with spectacle but with intellectual uniqueness. Its value lies in the fact that it makes a theme out of the unwritten, builds a whole out of fragments, and creates a powerful form of the author's poetics out of literary incompleteness.
One copy is available
