Šuma jorgovana

What distinguishes the stories collected in this book from all other literary stories is the fact that the other world they tell about is not just some imaginary world, conjured up in the mind, the one into which a person usually projects the most tender and refined things he carries in his heart and dreams of and would like to find in his own children, but it is in contrast to the existing and real world, which considers itself the only real one. It is a world that exists outside the reader, but which is revealed only by entering into his own interior, learning to read in his own heart. However, these are true stories that children can also listen to and enjoy, perhaps even more than adults. Each time, the characters, the plot and the setting are new, fresh, spontaneous, sharp to the point of amazement, exactly as is expected of stories. The message and the story were not created separately, first one, and then the other. There is no need to try to add an image to the message to color it or a message to the image to strengthen it. It feels like these two things were created together, merged into one. And when it comes to fairy tales as stories, when the storytelling outweighs the message, it also comes out in an understandable way that shows how to live in that new world, and so, one could say, one breathes in an atmosphere of innocence and beauty.