Pariški maraton : Knjiga pisanja (Pariz21. i 22. oktobar 2023)
At the end of the eighties, Damir Uzunović traveled to Paris and stayed there for less than a year. He was twenty years old at the time, and that exile episode would be formative for the literature he would later write.
In his world, the reality of the real city was mixed with the mythological reality of Paris from Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast, from the prose of Henry Miller, or those of Marguerite Duras, whom he could still meet on the streets of Paris. More than thirty years later, Uzunović returns to Paris, and the reason for this is research for the needs of the novel he is currently writing. The Paris Marathon describes two days in the company of a son who is now exactly the age his father was when he was there long ago. In a quick, two-day shift of images and events, the perspectives in which he looks at the famous architecture also change, he looks at it through the eyes of his own child, but also through the eyes of the fictional hero of his future novel. He looks at the city and superimpositions of scenes of that city from the past appear to him. Uzunović has a distinct gift for form, his syntax is harmonized with the movement in the city space, the ease with which he naturally transitions from a literary description to an essayistic passage is a confirmation of legitimate literary mastery. Uzunović, therefore, visited Paris to gather material for the novel he was writing, and this Paris Marathon, a quick travelogue that is the result of that research trip, is, in fact, an on the road novel of exceptional beauty.
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